Best Answer: How Do I Copy the Last 1000 Lines in Linux?
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How do I copy the last 10 lines in Linux?

1. counting the number of lines in the file, using `cat f. txt | wc -l` and then using head and tail in a pipeline to print out the last 81424 lines of the file (lines #totallines-81424-1 to #totallines).

How do I get the last 100 lines of a file in Unix?

The tail command is a command-line utility for outputting the last part of files given to it via standard input. It writes results to standard output. By default tail returns the last ten lines of each file that it is given. It may also be used to follow a file in real-time and watch as new lines are written to it.

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