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How to examine and open a text file?

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I am a new to linux, i was faced a file to know is a text file but its type isnt text document and i can not open it please guide me.
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Thank you for your cooperation, my OS is a centOS 5.5 and works with bshell

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to get some clue about what do contains a a file, just use the commande file :
example below to get some clue about my file whose name start by m* o* q* or ti* :

Code:

$ file {[moq]*,ti*}
men:       Bourne-Again shell script text executable
myd:       a /usr/bin/ksh script text executable
myscript:  a /usr/bin/ksh script text executable
output:    ASCII text
questions: UTF-8 Unicode English text
tick:      Korn shell script text executable
titi:      ASCII text

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I don't know Cent OS, but if it is a Unix-like" operating system :
to get some clue about which user/group it belongs to, and read/write/execute permission overview :

Code:

$ ls -l {[moq]*,ti*}
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users  1289 Nov 27 17:39 men
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users   764 Nov 22 16:41 myd
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users   319 Nov 27 00:49 myscript
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users    90 Dec  2 15:05 output
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users  1082 Nov 27 06:56 questions
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users  1301 Nov 27 10:12 tick
-rw-------  1 ctsgnb  users    28 Nov 30 16:52 titi

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