shell command tail code example

Example 1: tail lines file

With the flag -n | N, the tail command prints out the last N lines of file(s)

tail -n 7 file.txt	#Prints first 7 lines of file.txt

Example 2: using tail command in linux

tail -f filename //For seeing Realtime change
tail -n 200 filename  // show last 200 lines of a file