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I will show you mine if you show me yours - Displaying files

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: December 5, 2005]

Here is a little stuff from me for all UNIX/Linux users out there. What are your favorite ways to displaying files while working at shell prompt? Here is my list (according to task):

Display text files

Display MS-Word file

Display PDF file

$ pdftohtml DB2-HOWTO.pdf
$ lynx DB2-HOWTO.html
OR
$ elinks DB2-HOWTO.html

Display Images in text browser (under xterm)

$ w3m http://cybrciti.biz/nixcraft/forum/

Display Man pages
w3mman - an interface to the reference manuals, you can search via keyword, section wise etc.

As you see some of above commands are extremely useful on remote Linux/UNIX/BSD server. That's it folks, time to show me yours :)

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