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:q! <enter> for exit without saving and without prompt which asks to save the file.
:wq <enter> to save and exit.

use find command to search from root /:

find / -type f -name "abc.log"

This is getting weirderer and weirderer!

WHY do you want to do that?

Combining all of your threads into one: Read the manual pages for head, tail, vi, find.

We have all of them here...

You can't have ten files with the same name in a directory. Is the date embedded in the filename? If so, best is in the format YYYYMMDDHHmm, then the files will display already sorted.


vi $(tail...

PuTTY is a terminal emulator, not an editor.

Use tail -f to see as the log is being update.

/abcd
press Esc before to be sure you are no more in mod/insert mode...
press n for next occurance

Do you even have screen? whereis screen

Also: introduction to screen (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=introduction+to+screen)