It is very common to use the 'tail' command to look at a file that is being written to in order to monitor the output of a process.
Most systems recognize the tail -f command for that purpose. You must then use an interrupt signal to stop it from looking at the active file.
Use the command 'head statusreport' (without the quotes)
The 'head' command can only deal with the start of the file, not the end. If you want X number of lines at the end of the file then use the 'tail' command. tail -5 filename will list the last 5 lines of the contents of filename.
tail -n 10 abc
Tail command is used to display the last lines of the file.Syntax:tail -n 3 file1-n 3 = no. of linesfile1 = filename
You can use the cat command combined with tailex:- cat filename | tailOr you can just use tail commandex:- tail filename
The tail command can be used to output the last part of a text file. The default is to show the last 10 lines of a file and options are available to override this.
$ cat filename | head
tail -10 anyfile | wc
tail -f /var/log/messages
You can use the man tail command to access the manual page for the tail command, which provides detailed information about its usage, options, and examples. Alternatively, you can use tail --help for a quick summary of its basic options and syntax.
You don't need a shell script to do this - just use the 'tail' command.
You can get a list of all the files in the current directory with the "ls -a" command.