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What is the unix command to display the first two characters of all the lines from a file?
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Assuming that the file you are looking at is a columnar file you can use the 'cut' command, as in 'cut -c1-2 filename'
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Use the 'wc' command: wc myfile[123].txt
Which command will display the last lines of the text file called file1in Linux?
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Merge and Center
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tail -10 anyfile | wc
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In unix what does the wc command output?
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What is interlaced display?
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List and execute UNIX command to display the sizes of the six largest files in the current directory listed in ascending order of their size?
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