Creating and inspecting text files is the foundation of shell work. touch updates timestamps or creates empty files. cat prints whole files to the terminal. head and tail show the beginning or end — tail -f even follows growing log files in real time. For large files prefer less or editors; dumping megabytes with cat can freeze a slow terminal.
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