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Displaying the last few lines in a file

The command tail <filename> displays the last 10 lines of the file <filename>. The command tail -n <filename> prints the last n lines. A neat option is tail -f <filename>, which ``tails'' the end of the file; i.e., as the file grows, tail displays the newest line. This can be handy for monitoring a file being written by a running program.



Amit Jain 2013-04-22