tail - output the last part of files

To display the last 10 lines of a file $ tail /var/log/messages

To Display the last N lines in a file $ tail -n 4 /var/log/messages

To Print filename header $ tail -v example.txt $ tail -v /var/log/messages

To Display the last n lines from multiple files $ tail -n 4 file1.txt file2.txt $ tail -n 4 /var/log/messages /var/log/apache2/access.log

To Save the output of tail command to a text file $ tail -n 10 /var/log/apache2/access.log > output.txt

To append to output.txt $ tail -n 10 /var/log/messages >> output.txt

To monitor real-time log files $ tail -f /var/log/messages

To use pipes $ tail -file.txt | sort $ tail /var/log/messages | sort $ tail /var/log/messages | tail -n 6 | sort

To Print N number of bytes data from a file $ tail -c 500 /var/log/messages $ tail -c 10M /var/log/messages

To print help options $ tail --help

regards, T.Dhanasekar