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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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 …

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 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 a string Example:...

Mar 13, 2023 · Using head -n 7 prints 7 lines; if you only want the seventh, then tail -n 1 prints the last. The advantage of the sed command is that it works more economically when you want line 7654321 …

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" …

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 | zcat -...

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 year, 9 months …