Re: Program to show just last few lines?

ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pan.2006.06.27.14.44.18.584491@xxxxxxxxxx:

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:59:06 +0000, x0054 wrote:

Is there a program that would just print last few lines of a file. I
guess this could be done with sed or something like that, but I was
wondering if there is a program that would actually read the file
from the back and just print last x amount of lines, so that I would
not have to load the entire file into memory.

Thank you,

- Bogdan

tail


Awesome, tail works grate. Kind of obvious name I guess :)

Thank you,

- Bogdan
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