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
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
* 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
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
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