tail comand

[vksingh]

Hi,

I tried the following command but it did not work.

tail -2 test2

Please help.

Thanks,

Vivek

[vksingh]

Hi,
I tried tail command like the following:

tail +7 test.txt.

But its is printing the whole content of the file. Please help.


Thanks,

Vivek

[matmatmat]

Are you trying to print out the last two lines? If so it it -n 2

[MadCow108]

you still need the -n

tail -n +5 text
or
tail --lines=+5 text

[Sef]

Merged duplicate threads.