Top "Tail" questions

What's the Solaris equivalent to the BSD's 'tail -n100'?

I've looked this up a thousand times, and I always forget it, so, here for eternity: Solaris has a bit …

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How can I read first n and last n lines from a file?

How can I read the first n lines and the last n lines of a file? For n=2, I read …

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bash tail on a live log file, counting uniq lines with same date/time

I'm looking for a good way to tail on a live log file, and display number of lines with the …

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Minimum Websocket Nodejs Tail Example

I'm trying to create a stream of data to the browser using websocket. The data is the output of a …

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How can I use tail utility to view a log file that is frequently recreated

I need a solution in creating a script to tail a log file that is recreated (with the same name) …

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How to tail -f the latest log file with a given pattern

I work with some log system which creates a log file every hour, like follows: SoftwareLog.2010-08-01-08 SoftwareLog.2010…

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Binary "tail" a file

I would guess most people on this site are familiar with tail, if not - it provides a "follow" mode …

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write to a file after piping output from tail -f through to grep

I'm looking to write to a file after piping output from tail -f through to grep. Say,write to a …

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Value of the last element of a list

how to get the value of the last element of a List? I've noted that List.hd (or .Head) return …

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How can I follow a file like "Tail -f" does in Java without holding the file open (Prevent rename/delete)

i'd like to "Tail -f" a lot of logfiles from within a java app. I've gotten this to work by …

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