Last 10 lines of a large file

loopoo · 05-10-2006, 02:19 AM

Hello everybody!

Can anyone please help me with the following issue: I want to get the last 10 lines of a large text file (2GB).

I used tail -n 10 filename, but this doesn't seem to work correctly.

Is there a better command to use for this problem??

I am on AIX 5.2

Thanks in advance,
Chris

reddazz · 05-10-2006, 02:46 AM

I've never used AIX, but on Linux and FreeBSD, "tail -10 filename" works fine for me. Could it be that your problem is a result of the big file size?

loopoo · 05-10-2006, 03:01 AM

Thanks for your post.

I took another look at this problem and it really goes well using 'tail -n 10 filename' command.

Chris