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. …

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 …

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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. $ …

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 …

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 …

Jun 21, 2014 · This time, tail -n +10 prints out the entire file starting from line 10, and head -n 91 prints the first 91 lines of that (up to and including line 100 of the original file).

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 | …

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 …

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 …