Printing a file in text or hex

Problem

We want to print a file with different representation. We also want to print various information related to the file.

Solution

For text file we can use various command like cat, head, tail, more, less

If we want to see file in hex format we can use hexdump

    hexdump <file>

To print information about the file such as file type we can use file command

    file <file>