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Old 06-29-2009
greping last occurrence of the searched string
Hello,

I have active log file i want to grep the last occurrence of the word in that log file the log file gets on increasing and increasing i want to fetch it from live file.

Please guide me, Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 06-29-2009
try tail -f : read the tail man page first!
Code:
tail -f /directory/logfile | grep 'some words'

# 3  
Old 06-29-2009
but what if that word is comes 2 times then i only want the last occurrence
# 4  
Old 07-28-2009
Code:
tac somefile | grep -m 1 someword

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Old 07-28-2009
Thks gonis for your valuable input...
many many thx once again
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