Top "Tail" questions

Get last line of shell output as a variable

I am working on a shell script with exiftool to automatically change some exif tags on pictures contained in a …

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Get last n lines or bytes of a huge file in Windows (like Unix's tail). Avoid time consuming options

I need to retrieve the last n lines of huge files (1-4 Gb), in Windows 7. Due to corporate restrictions, I …

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Using combination of "head" and "tail" to display middle line of the file in Unix

If I have a file name myownfile.txt which contains 3 lines of text. foo hello world bar I want to …

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Inserting blank lines in powershell console

On unix I can do a tail -f file And the equivalent powershell command is gc file -Wait However on …

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grep for text with wild card in between

I would like to grep something like ==> *.sh <==. But it doesn't work, I can grep everything up to .…

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Tail -f + grep?

Tail has the following options: -f The -f option causes tail to not stop when end of file is reached, …

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How do I get the last non-empty line of a file using tail in Bash?

How do I get the last non-empty line using tail under Bash shell? For example, my_file.txt looks like …

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How to tail all the log files inside a folder and subfolders?

In Linux, using the command tailf, how can I tail several log files that are inside a folder and in …

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Streaming log(txt) viewer

Anybody in the know of a viewer (or Notepad++ plugin) that can read txt files in a streaming way? I …

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Grep a Log file for the last occurrence of a string between two strings

I have a log file trace.log. In it I need to grep for the content contained within the strings &…

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