Show tail of files in a directory? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
A simple pipe to tail -n 200 should suffice. Example Sample data. $ touch $(seq 300) Now the last 200: $ ls -l | tail -n 200 You might not like the way the results are presented in that list of 200. …
How do I read the last lines of a huge log file?
Feb 20, 2024 · tail --bytes 100M logfile.log | tail However, if you're using GNU Coreutil¹'s tail implementation, that already does this (i.e., it seeks to the end of the file minus 2.5 kB, and …
bash - Extract parts of a string using head and tail only - Unix ...
Oct 22, 2023 · Hello I would like to know if there is a way where I can only use head, tail, and pipes (and redirection eventually) to extract and output the start, middle characters, and end of …
tail program output to file in Linux - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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Command to display first few and last few lines of a file
The { head; tail; } solution wouldn't work on pipes (or sockets or any other non-seekable files) because head could consume too much data as it reads by blocks and can't seek back on a …
How to get tail result with line number - Unix & Linux Stack …
Sep 29, 2019 · I tried to use tail xxxx.log | nl to get last 10 lines and their line numbers, but nl command only counts the lines of tailed result. Say there're 20 lines in that file, the returned …
How can I save the output of tail to my clipboard or somewhere
Mar 4, 2024 · How can I save the output of tail to my clipboard or somewhere on a SSH session where there is only a unidirectional connection and server is limited? Ask Question Asked 1 …
Show particular lines using only head and tail - Unix & Linux Stack ...
Nov 8, 2019 · I want to show the 3th and the 7th lines in a file only using commands head and tail (I don't want to show the lines between the 3th and the 7th).
Why does head; tail on a large file sometimes take a long time and ...
Aug 17, 2017 · The files are quite large which is why I opted to only read the head and tail of the files instead of the entire text. However, when I run the script the large files take a long time to …
Can someone explain this tail - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
I'm looking through some of the scripts that are on the servers and came across an 80MB shell script. Naturally curious I decided to look in there and came across this line: tail +4802 $0 | …