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Old 11-23-2005
How to extract many lines from a file, typically the 1000 last
Hello!

Is it anyone who might know how to extract the n last lines from a file, typically the 1000 last? Until know I have used sed -n np filename, but it takes each line separately, and is hence very time consuming.

Thank you in advance!
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Old 11-23-2005
man tail.

Code:
tail -1000 file.to.extract.from

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Old 11-23-2005
tail?

$ tail -1000 filename
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Old 11-23-2005
That was fast! Thank you a lot!!
 
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