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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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 …

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 …

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:...

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 -...

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...

I have text file. Task - get first and last line from file after $ cat file | grep -E "1|2|3|4" | commandtoprint $ cat file 1 2 3 4 5 Need this without cat output ...

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" …