Linux Display File Content

in the previous video we have seen how

we can copy or move offer now what if I

want to check the content of a file now

already we have saved some text into the

lead into a particular file or if we

have added some data into a file if I

want to see what the data have added in

to differ so for removing this content

what the commands are use that we are

going to see here so very first come on

generally we have that is cat command

itself so we have seen in while creating

a file we use the cat and go to the

design and the file name so that it

creates a new file but if I want to just

check the file content I'll be giving a

command cat following with the file name

so it will open a file and check show me

the content what we have added into it

and same way we also have the command

called as WC cordoes word count if I do

not want to check a file content but if

I want to see how many words I have

added into a file or how many letters I

have had it into a file or how many

lines of lines generally we have been in

profile we can use by using the WC

command

so let us check how we can use this

command into the terminal and move the

content of the file check the content of

the file and count eight letters and

words without counting it manually so

here we'll open the terminal and it's a

terminal first we'll move on the desktop

so for moving on the text job we'll have

to give the command so already we are on

next job so we can see these are the two

files I have created on the desktop that

is data one and demo one now if I want

to get access to the file and I want to

check what the content I have added into

my data one I can see this is the

content correct same way I can use the

command data one or the we can also get

the file name which is a demo one sorry

so we can see the content of the firm so

cat command can be used to check the

content of a file now if I want to

count the words of this particular file

or character of this file we generally

have a DC command so WC command and

write down the file name and hit enter

you can find 112 64 and mo 1 but how

come to know what this is what this is

and what is this so J basically this is

your line numbers so the number of lines

you have the number of words you have n

number of characters you have if I want

to just check the number of lines I can

also give a parameter of W see that WC -

L and demo1 so it is showing you it has

only one line same thing if I want to

check the number of words I have so I

can give W and demo1 so it may show me

you have 12 words so you can white count

it out over here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 words right same way I can also check

the number of characters I have written

over here so it's showing you 64

characters I'm using so this way you can

also check the length of your file like

what they contend to you how how many

words you have if suppose you have

restrictions world restrictions into

your particular files you can count your

file words in spite of counting it

manually so this I think two commands

are basic commands we generally use

while creating before while adding the

content of the file or looking at the

content of the file as well as counting

the number of world's lines and

characters of a verb so into next video

we are going to see how we can remove a

file