Linux tail command

If you wish to look at the last lines of a file in a Linux environment you should use the Linux tail command. In this article, we’ll show the basic usage of tail

Showing the last 10 lines of a file using tail

tail myTextFile.txt

Showing the last n lines using Linux tail command

Here you should replace n with the number of lines you wish to see

tail -n myTextFile.txt

Watch a file with Linux tail command

This will make tail refresh and display any changes made to the file. It’s useful when watching logs, waiting for an event to occur

tail -F myTextFile.txt
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