Using text file manipulation tools

System administrators, developers, and users need to work with text files, configuration files, and log files when working on Linux. Some of these files are large; some of them are small or medium. The data contained in these files frequently needs to be viewed, updated, or extracted. In this section, we will learn how to manage and manipulate text files on Linux.

Different types of editor used to view file content

There are different types of editor used to view the content of files. Some editors, such as vim or nano, require the whole file to be loaded into memory first. These types of editors are not suitable for working on or viewing the contents of large log files, such as banking database...