[thelist] Notice of Bar-bE-Volt 2001! // Tip

Ross Lynch kernel at esatclear.ie
Fri Sep 7 03:44:18 CDT 2001


> <tip type="unix">
> Did you know you can specify the number
> of lines that the 'tail' command
> shows?
>
> tail -n 50 file.txt will show the last 50
> lines of file.txt which is
> handy if you need to dig back more than
> the default 15 lines.
> </tip>

Indeed, just

$ tail -50 file.txt

will show the last 50 lines too...

 -Ross

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