Top "Tail" questions

A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command

I'm looking for the equivalent of the Unix 'tail' command that will allow me to watch the output of a …

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How to 'grep' a continuous stream?

Is that possible to use grep on a continuous stream? What I mean is sort of a tail -f <…

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Unix tail equivalent command in Windows Powershell

I have to look at the last few lines of a large file (typical size is 500MB-2GB). I am …

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Printing the last column of a line in a file

I have a file that is constantly being written to/updated. I want to find the last line containing a …

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Get last n lines of a file, similar to tail

I'm writing a log file viewer for a web application and for that I want to paginate through the lines …

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How can I tail a log file in Python?

I'd like to make the output of tail -F or something similar available to me in Python without blocking or …

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Head and tail in one line

Is there a pythonic way to unpack a list in the first element and the "tail" in a single command? …

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How do I use Head and Tail to print specific lines of a file

I want to say output lines 5 - 10 of a file, as arguments passed in. How could I use head and …

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What's the opposite of head? I want all but the first N lines of a file

Given a text file of unknown length, how can I read, for example all but the first 2 lines of the …

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Java IO implementation of unix/linux "tail -f"

I'm wondering what techniques and/or library to use to implement the functionality of the linux command "tail -f ". I'm …

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