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. For that you …

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 looks …

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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 result's actua...

Oct 17, 2023 · I have to grab the first two lines, the lines 43 and 44, and the last 2 lines from a file in one conduct of commands. Is there away to print those while only using head, tail and pipe commands AND

Jun 29, 2015 · I want to see what are the last N commands in my history. I thought history | tail -n 5 would make it, but I noticed that a multiline command counts for as many lines as it has. $ echo …

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 pipe potentially …

The middle sections are slightly trickier -- I was thinking about piping tail output into head ( tail -4001 file.txt | head -4000 > section2.txt ), but is there another/better way?

Oct 1, 2012 · If I execute a command like tail -n 50 myapp.log I actually receive hundreds of "lines" of text (log entries). This log file is very large, roughly 1GB, who knows how long ago the last CR and/or …

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 "finish up" …