tail - output the last part of files
To display the last 10 lines of a file
$ tail /var/log/messages
To Display the last N lines in a file
$ tail -n 4 /var/log/messages
To Print filename header
$ tail -v example.txt
$ tail -v /var/log/messages
To Display the last n lines from multiple files
$ tail -n 4 file1.txt file2.txt
$ tail -n 4 /var/log/messages /var/log/apache2/access.log
To Save the output of tail command to a text file
$ tail -n 10 /var/log/apache2/access.log > output.txt
To append to output.txt
$ tail -n 10 /var/log/messages >> output.txt
To monitor real-time log files
$ tail -f /var/log/messages
To use pipes
$ tail -file.txt | sort
$ tail /var/log/messages | sort
$ tail /var/log/messages | tail -n 6 | sort
To Print N number of bytes data from a file
$ tail -c 500 /var/log/messages
$ tail -c 10M /var/log/messages
To print help options
$ tail --help
regards,
T.Dhanasekar
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