tail
NAME
tail – display the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
tail [-F -f -r] [-q] [-b number -c number -n number] [file …]
DESCRIPTION
The tail utility displays the contents of file or, by default, its standard input, to the standard output.
The display begins at a byte, line or 512-byte block location in the input. Numbers having a leading plus (+') sign are relative to the beginning of the input, for example,
-c +2'' starts the display at the second byte of the input. Numbers having a leading minus (
-‘) sign or no explicit sign are relative to the end of the input, for example, -n 2'' displays the last two lines of the input. The default starting location is
-n 10’’, or the last 10 lines of the input.
OPTIONS
- -f
- The -f option causes tail to not stop when end of file is reached, but rather to wait for additional data to be appended to the input. The -f option is ignored if the standard input is a pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
- Now to start with the last 100 lines of server.log we use the following command.
tail -100f server.log