Take, for instance, viewing the content of text files. For decades, I've used one method, even though I know there are other ways to do it. But my brain always defaults to what's already ingrained.

Web site Hackaddict.net demonstrates how to remove the contents of a plain text file on Windows, Linux, and Mac without manually deleting the file and recreating it. This can be done by copying ...

You can view a Text file in Command Prompt or PowerShell in Windows 11/10. You can view the entire content of TXT, a specific line, etc.

If you need to check the contents of a compressed text file on Linux, you don’t have to uncompress it first. Instead, you can use a zcat or bzcat command to extract and display file contents ...

However, you can also copy content from a text or other text-based file directly from the right-click menu in Windows 10. For that, you just have to carry out a Registry hack.

The comm command will compare text files, but it has one special requirement. It expects the file content to be in sorted order. In the example below, you will see some complaints when non-sorted ...

Perhaps we've got a text file with a single sentence in it: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." In this text file, I'd like to replace the word "brown" with "white." To do that, I'll first ...

Merging two text files; Suppose you have two files, names.txt and ages.txt: names.txt: Alice Bob Charlie ages.txt: 30 25 35 . You can use paste to combine these files into a single file: paste ...

For all these examples, assume that we have a file called ik.txt. Note that sed does not alter the original file by default. All changes will appear in the output, but the original file will remain ...