How to print the last line of a gz compressed file in the command line?
If you want lines from the tail-end of a file rather than the head-end, use tail
instead of head
:
$ zcat /var/log/syslog.2.gz | tail -1
Aug 24 07:09:02 myhost rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.4.2" x-pid="796" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed
FWIW: I've developed a command line tool which can make a tail (-t
) or even a continuous tail of a gzip file (-T
) as it grows. (Many other options available):
https://github.com/circulosmeos/gztool
So for your case:
$ gztool -t myfile.gz | tail -1
Note that for any of these actions gztool
will create a little (<1%/gzip) index file interleaved with that action. The advantage of this is that all next "tails" or extractions on that file will consume almost no time/cpu as the file is not decompressed again entirely!