02-05-2010
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I am trying to using pipe (|) with ! (not) operator to list all the other files except the latest two and I am using the following command.
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I have found a interesting thing about tail command:
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I was wondering how can I do this
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Please help with the following command
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In my home directory, there are so many files. i tried to get the lastly created file by following command.
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Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted!
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Hi,
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Hi Team,
Can anyone help me here:
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
isamlog
ISAMLOG(1) General Commands Manual ISAMLOG(1)
NAME
isamlog - Write info about whats in a nisam log file.
USAGE
isamlog [-?iruvIV] [-c #] [-f #] [-F filepath/] [-o #] [-R file recordpos] [-w write_file] [log-filename [table ...]]
SYNOPSIS
isamlog [-?|-I] [-V] [-c] [-f] [-F] [-i] [-o] [-p #] [-r] [-R] [-u] [-v] [-w]
DESCRIPTION
isamlog
-?|-I info
-V version
-c do only # commands
-f max open files
-F file path
-i extra info
-o offset
-p # remove # components from path
-r recover
-R file recordposition
-u update
-v verbose
-w write file
NOTE
If no file name is given isam.log is used One can give a second and a third '-v' for more verbose. Normaly one does a update (-u). If a
recover is done all writes and all possibly updates and deletes is done and errors are only counted. If one gives table names as arguments
only these tables will be updated
SEE ALSO
isamchk (1), isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
(1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se). This software comes with
no warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
curmedia.com)
20 December 2000 ISAMLOG(1)