Tail -f Command help Post: 303026614

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

help with !(tail -2) command.. using pipes

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. $ ls -ltr *.lst|!(tail -2) ksh: 20050211180252.lst: cannot execute but it is trying to execute the file returned by tail -2. I am able to do that in 4...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command

Hi , I have found a interesting thing about tail command: when I tried to use 'tail -1 *' to look at every file with the current derectory, I only got one line of result of one file. But if I use 'head -1 *', I would get multiple lines. Is there a way to do get multiple lines with 'tail -1 *'...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command..

I was wondering how can I do this I have file myfile.txt wc -l is: 5 000 000 I have to remove first 1 000 000 lines from header.. I tryed with tail -4000000 myfile.txt>newfile.txt but it does not work... any help??

4. Solaris

Tail command in one line

HI i have to copy the last 5000 lines form a log file and copy the same in the same file .overwriting the same log file. ex: tail -5000 testfile1 > testfile2 cat testfile2 mv tesftfile2 testfile1 will produce the correct result.but i want to have this done in one line????

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with tail command

Hi All, My query seems to be silly but Iam unable to find where the exact problem lies. I have a script to unzip set of files here is the script #!/bin/ksh Count=`cat /home/gaddamja/Tempfile | wc -l` while do Filename=`cat /home/gaddamja/Tempfile |tail -$Count | head -1` cd...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Tail command with wildcard file name

Please help with the following command tail -f /appdata/logs/alert_audit517.txt | grep "Sep 02" The problem I have is with the file name "alert_audit517.txt". The 3 digit number at the end of the file name changes, so I need the file name to use a wildcard. Ive tried alert_audit***.txt, but...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command problems

Hi, In my home directory, there are so many files. i tried to get the lastly created file by following command. file=`ls -lrt MXOfiles* | tail -1` As there are so many files, it displays "$ : 0403-027 The parameter list is too long." Can someone tell me how can i get the recent file...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command help

Hi does anyone know how to create a file using the tail command? My book has this file I need to create and it says to use the tail command and that it is possible but I have no idea. Thanks.

9. Homework & Coursework Questions

Using tail with the filter command

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: Devise a chain of filters using some or all of the following programs pr, cut, cat, tail to display a numbered...

10. How to Post in the The UNIX and Linux Forums

Usage of tail command in .awk

Hi, I want to do file format using awk script, for that i wan to use 'tail'. Here is the scenario. I will be having set of files in a directory. Those files i need to write to another directory with same file name, but while writing the file to out directory, i need to write the last line as...

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ns_stats

ns_info(3aolserver)					    AOLserver Built-In Commands 				       ns_info(3aolserver)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       ns_info, ns_server, ns_stats - commands

SYNOPSIS

       ns_info address

       ns_info argv0

       ns_info boottime

       ns_info builddate

       ns_info config

       ns_info home

       ns_info hostname

       ns_info interp

       ns_info label

       ns_info log

       ns_info name

       ns_info pageroot

       ns_info platform

       ns_info server

       ns_info tcllib

       ns_info uptime

       ns_info version

       ns_server option ?arg arg ...?

       ns_stats option ?arg arg ...?
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       ns_info boottime
	      Returns the server boot time in seconds.
       ns_info config
	      Returns the configuration file name.
       ns_info home
	      Returns the directory where the AOLserver was installed.
       ns_info hostname
	      Returns the name of the host on which server is running (e.g., www.myhost.com).
       ns_info interp
	      Returns the number of the Tcl interpreter currently being used.
       ns_info label
	      Returns the source code label for the server. If no label was used, "unlabeled" is returned.
       ns_info log
	      Returns the location of the server log file (e.g., /home/myserver/log/server.log).
       ns_info name
	      Returns the name of the AOLserver. It's usually "AOLserver."
       ns_info pageroot
	       returns the directory containing the HTML pages for this virtual server.
       ns_info platform
	      Returns the name of the platform that the server is running on (e.g., Solaris).
       ns_info server
	      returns the name of this virtual server.
       ns_info tcllib returns the directory where the AOLserver Tcl source code resides for this virtual server.

       ns_info uptime returns the time in seconds that the server has been up.

       ns_info version returns the version of the AOLserver.

SEE ALSO

       nsd(1), info(n)

KEYWORDS

AOLserver								4.0						       ns_info(3aolserver)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

help with !(tail -2) command.. using pipes

Discussion started by: sdlayeeq

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command

Discussion started by: whatisthis

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

tail command..

Discussion started by: amon

4. Solaris

Tail command in one line

Discussion started by: saurabh84g