Hi,
I want to read a live log file line by line and considering those line which are newly added to file
Below code I am using, which read line but as soon as it read new line from log file its starts processing from very first line of file.
tail -F /logs/COMMON-ERROR.log | while read... (11 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
view the 7th line of the program xxx.sh
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
head command tail... (10 Replies)
Hi ,
1)i want to display specific line number using tail command.
e.g. display 10 line from end.
Please help...
2)Want to display line 10 to 15 (from end)using tail command) (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have been given assignment of 30 scripts out of which I was able to solve many, I need help with few out of which one asks to imitate head and tail command of unix without using the head and tail commands. Problem is stated below:
Write an interactive shell script to imitate the head... (5 Replies)
I am new to UNIX......I have one file which contains thousnads of records with header and tailer.
Header
Record 1
Record 2
....
....
Last Record
Trailer
I want to concatenate Header and Trailer in the first line....now the output should look like this:
Header: Header value, Trailer:... (2 Replies)
I've a major file which includes other files and now I wanna 'cut' the file in several minor parts....like
....
find / -name "*.tmp" >filea
wc -l filea >fileb
sed -e '1s/ filea//' fileb >filec
AMOUNT=`cat filec`
if ; then
cat file a |head -100l (ell) |tail -100l >filec
cat file a |head... (6 Replies)
tail(1) User Commands tail(1)NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/tail [+-s number [lbcr]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcr] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [+- number [lbcf]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcf] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [-f | -r] [-c number | -n number] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [+- number [l | b | c] [f]] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [+- number [l] [f | r]] [file]
DESCRIPTION
The tail utility copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place. If no file is named, the standard input is
used.
Copying begins at a point in the file indicated by the -cnumber, -nnumber, or +-number options (if +number is specified, begins at distance
number from the beginning; if -number is specified, from the end of the input; if number is NULL, the value 10 is assumed). number is
counted in units of lines or byte according to the -c or -n options, or lines, blocks, or bytes, according to the appended option l, b,
or c. When no units are specified, counting is by lines.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail. The -r and -f options are mutually exclusive. If both
are specified on the command line, the -f option is ignored.
-b Units of blocks.
-c Units of bytes.
-f Follow. If the input-file is not a pipe, the program does not terminate after the line of the input-file has been copied, but enters
an endless loop, wherein it sleeps for a second and then attempts to read and copy further records from the input-file. Thus it can
be used to monitor the growth of a file that is being written by some other process.
-l Units of lines.
-r Reverse. Copies lines from the specified starting point in the file in reverse order. The default for r is to print the entire file
in reverse order.
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/tail only:
-c number The number option-argument must be a decimal integer whose sign affects the location in the file, measured in bytes, to begin
the copying:
+ Copying starts relative to the beginning of the file.
- Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
none Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
The origin for counting is 1; that is, -c+1 represents the first byte of the file, -c-1 the last.
-n number Equivalent to -cnumber, except the starting location in the file is measured in lines instead of bytes. The origin for count-
ing is 1. That is, -n+1 represents the first line of the file, -n-1 the last.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
file A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of tail when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the tail Command
The following command prints the last ten lines of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is
initiated and killed.
example% tail -f fred
The next command prints the last 15 bytes of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is initi-
ated and killed:
example% tail -15cf fred
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tail: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cat(1), head(1), more(1), pg(1), dd(1M), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)NOTES
Piped tails relative to the end of the file are stored in a buffer, and thus are limited in length. Various kinds of anomalous behavior can
happen with character special files.
SunOS 5.11 13 Jul 2005 tail(1)