Re: reading the end of file

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-23 01:45, Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
> * Francesco Pietra schrieb:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Is any command faster than
> >
> > cat filename
> >
> > to reach and print on screen the last page of the file?
>
> what kind of "file"? 
>   tail -n 10 filename
> makes output of last 10 lines of a file. But if there are no
> linefeeds/ carriage return in the files, the it makes no sense. 
>
>   tac filename > filename_taced 

Hey, cool.  I never knew that...

> turns around a file, the end becomes the beginning. 
>   head -n 10 filename_taced | tac 

Why use an intermediary file instead of a pipe?

$ tac filename | head -n10

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