Nov 28, 2013 · 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 …

Jun 29, 2015 · I want to see what are the last N commands in my history. I thought history | tail -n 5 would make it, but I noticed that a multiline command counts for as many lines as it has. $ …

The command tail, often used to show the last lines of a file, has an option -c (--bytes), which seems to be just the right tool for this: $ printf 123456789 | tail -c 3 789 (When you are in a …

May 25, 2017 · You can combine GNU tail and head: tail -c +26 file | head -c -2 will output the contents of file starting at byte 26, and stopping two bytes (minus two -2) before the end. (-c …

The middle sections are slightly trickier -- I was thinking about piping tail output into head ( tail -4001 file.txt | head -4000 > section2.txt ), but is there another/better way?

One problem with your first command is that you redirect stderr to where stdout is (if you changed the $ to a & as suggested in the comment) and then, you redirected stdout to some log file, but …

Jun 16, 2021 · If I type sudo journalctl I get the system journal in some kind of a reader. Pressing j and k works like in Vi but G does not go to the end of the file. In fact, if press G, the stream …

Raku can perform head and tail operations as well *, and a more efficient approach may be to read the file using lines then head the resulting anonymous array, leaving off the last element. …

Jul 12, 2014 · Note that the default configuration on Ubuntu is to NOT log ssh logins to the /var/log/auth file. This is the INFO logging level. If you want to have it include login attempts in …

And finally if do this: $ watch echo $(ls -ltr|tail -n 1) I see no change in the output at the given interval because the command inside $() is run just once and the resulting output string is …