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Living in the Shell #20; tail (Display/Follow File Content)
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tail ⛵
Display or follow file content.
ℹ️ Here, following means streaming a file while it's being updated (appended).
ℹ️ You can use -c in place of -n in the following examples, to switch to binary offset selection.
Print bottom N lines of a file -n
tail -n 5 ~/.bashrc
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Prints last 5 lines of
~/.bashrc
Print from N-th line afterwards -n +N
tail -n +3 ~/.bashrc
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Prints
~/.bashrcfrom the 3rd line until the end.
Following syslog events -f
tail -f /var/log/syslog
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Follows system logs (on Debian/Ubuntu).
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