On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:36:06 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Would someone please recommend a simple file viewer. I am looking for a > viewer that will display the contents of a file no matter what type it > is. If I can't read what it displays, I will just close it and move on. Well, then.... `strings $FN` Maybe... `strings $FN | head -n 40` `man strings` `man head`