Some useful linux terminal commands

Here are some Linux terminal commands that I find useful for me.

• create file

touch file.txt

• create and open a file with nano

nano file.txt

• Read the content of a file (3 different approaches)

cat file.txt 
more largefile.txt
less largefile.txt

• read the first 5 lines of a file

head -n 5 file.txt

• read the last 5 lines of a file

tail -n 5 file.txt