On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:28:58AM +0000, mukyvelous2k5 wrote:
> How do i write a command for tail tail -n
I'm not quite sure of your question--if you mean you want to, for
example, get the last line of the file it would be something like
(If your file's name was myfile)
tail -1 myfile. (I suspect I'm missing your question because it seems
from your post as if you understand that already.)
If you want more than the usual ten lines, you can do that too.
tail -100 myfile
If you need to get the 5th line of file you sometimes have to use head
in conjunction with tail.
head -5 myfile |tail -1
That prints the first five lines of myfile then pipes it to tail to grab
the last line.
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