From the tail(1) man page Tail program output to file in linux ask question asked 13 years, 3 months ago modified 7 years, 6 months ago Tail will then listen for changes to that file
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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.
Say i have a huge text file (>2gb) and i just want to cat the lines x to y (e.g
From what i understand i can do this by piping head into tail or viceversa, i.e Generally speaking, if it is possible to limit (in this case to 1) the number of lines a command's output has. I wouldn't mind other commands just looking for that kind of behavior. $ touch $(seq 300) now the last 200
