January 10, 201412 yr You might need to use tail which displays the last lines of a file. To view file endings with tail: tail filename At the shell prompt, type fail followed by the filename. To view a specified number of lines: tail -20 filename Here, all you do is add a specific number of lines you want to view To view the endings of multiple files: tail filename* | more Pipe the tail command and the files (multiple files indicated with *) to more head and tail are great for splitting long files. Use wc -l to count the lines. If the file has 500 lines, but you care about only the beginning and ending lines, then type head -25 filename > new filename to put the first 25 lines of the file into a new file. Then do the same with tail to put the last 25 lines of the file into another new file.
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