tail last 100 lines code example

Example 1: bash print last n lines of file

# Basic syntax:
tail -n input_file
# Where n is the number of lines to load from the end of the input_file

Example 2: tail 100 lines

tail -100 <log file>   > newLogfile

Example 3: "tail -n"

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