- Tail command in unix or linux system is used to print the last N lines from the file on the terminal. Tail command is especially used with log files to read the last few lines to know about the error messages.
- Tail prints the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, it precedes each set of output with a header giving the file name. If no FILE is specified, or if FILE is specified as a dash ("-"), tail reads from standard input.
The syntax of Tail command is
The options are
- -c: Prints the last N bytes of file; With leading +, Prints th echaracters from N byte in the file
- -n: Prints last N lines; With leading + prints lines from the Nth line in the file
- -f: Prints the appended lines on the terminal as the file grows
- -q: never output header giving filenames
- Command to Display last 10 lines
Default it displays last 10 lines in a file.
- Command to print last 'n' Bytes.
- Command to display last 2 lines from file
