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I have to grab the first two lines, the lines 43 and 44, and the last 2 lines from a file in one conduct of commands. Is there away to print those while only using head, tail and pipe commands AND
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Hello I would like to know if there is a way where I can only use head, tail, and pipes (and redirection eventually) to extract and output the start, middle characters, and end of a string Example:...
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Why would you expect this to hang instead of simply returning 4096 bytes and exiting? I don't know much about this kind of thing, but it seems odd to expect it to hang. What does tail -c 4097 /dev/zero | wc -c tell you? Doesn't it return 4097? It does on my Arch.
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The files are quite large which is why I opted to only read the head and tail of the files instead of the entire text. However, when I run the script the large files take a long time to "finish up" (which consists of reading the first 10 lines and last 10 lines and the compare, a task that should only take a moment or two).
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I have a log of 55GB in size. I tried: cat logfile.log | tail But this approach takes a lot of time. Is there any way to read huge files faster or any other approach?
I tried to use tail xxxx.log | nl to get last 10 lines and their line numbers, but nl command only counts the lines of tailed result. Say there're 20 lines in that file, the returned result's actua...
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When I use tail file, tail by default prints the last 10 lines. Is it possible to change that default in the system level?
Using head -n 7 prints 7 lines; if you only want the seventh, then tail -n 1 prints the last. The advantage of the sed command is that it works more economically when you want line 7654321 instead of line 7. The variant with 7q quits after the 7th line; that may generate a SIGPIPE to the process feeding the data to the command sequence.
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I'm looking through some of the scripts that are on the servers and came across an 80MB shell script. Naturally curious I decided to look in there and came across this line: tail +4802 $0 | zcat -...
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From the tail(1) man page: With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end. This default behavior is not …
Say I have a huge text file (>2GB) and I just want to cat the lines X to Y (e.g. 57890000 to 57890010). From what I understand I can do this by piping head into tail or viceversa, i.e. head -A /...
I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like: INFO SEVERE etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. What kind of alias can I set...
When I do tail -f filename, how to quit the mode without use Ctrl+c to kill the process? What I want is a normal way to quit, like q in top. I am just curious about the question, because I feel ...
I've got a CI server with a command-line interface that allows me to remotely kick-off a job (jenkins CI server and the jenkins-cli.jar tool). After I kick the job off I tail -f the log (sorry for...
Tail will then listen for changes to that file. If you remove the file, and create a new one with the same name the filename will be the same but it's a different inode (and probably stored on a different place …
1 You can use diff to compare the output of head / tail to the original file and then remove what is the same, therefore getting the inverse.
Some versions of tail also accept a numeric option directly, like tail -5 or tail +5, but that is non-POSIX. The output from tail to a pipe will be line-buffered. However, whatever is reading that pipe …
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