viewing large files (1gig >)

does any know how to view a few lines of a large file in linux, the files are no smaller then 1G.

is there any way to just chop the first few hundred lines from the file to view that ? other then using split.

 

head -n <number> <filename> , this will view the <number> of lines from the top of the file <filename>
tail -n <number> <filename> , this will view the last <number> lines of the file <filename>

 

Thanks powerspike!

 

Don't forget if you want to view line x to line y, you can do:
head -n y <filename> | tail -n x

 

no worries at all, glad it helped =)