Re: reading the end of file

2009-07-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:37:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-23 01:45, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: >> * Francesco Pietra schrieb: >> >>> Hi: >>> >>> Is any command faster than >>> >>> cat filename >>> >>> to reach and print on screen the last page of the file? >> >> what kind of "file"? ta

Re: reading the end of file

2009-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-23 01:45, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: * Francesco Pietra schrieb: Hi: Is any command faster than cat filename to reach and print on screen the last page of the file? what kind of "file"? tail -n 10 filename makes output of last 10 lines of a file. But if there are no linefeeds/ ca

Re: reading the end of file

2009-07-23 Thread Ekkard Gerlach
* Francesco Pietra schrieb: > Hi: > > Is any command faster than > > cat filename > > to reach and print on screen the last page of the file? what kind of "file"? tail -n 10 filename makes output of last 10 lines of a file. But if there are no linefeeds/ carriage return in the files, the it

Re: reading the end of file

2009-07-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi: > > Is any command faster than > > cat filename > > to reach and print on screen the last page of the file? > Define 'page'. Anyway, the command you want is 'tail'. By default it prints the last 10 lines, but this can be changed, see the man page. > The question