Open Archive Files

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Earlier we discussed 15 practical examples of find command and grep command. Now, it is time to turn our attention to something less.
 
In this article, let us review how Linux less command can be used to open and view the following 10 different file types:

1. PDF File – *.pdf
2. Word Document- *.doc
3. Image Files – *.gif, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png
4. TAR Files – *.tar
5. TAR Files with gzip – *.tar.gz
6. Zip Files – *.zip
7. Gzip and Gzip2 Files – *.gz and *.bz2
8. ISO Files
9. Debian Files – *.deb
10. RPM Files – *.rpm

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