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I've got a log file that's managed to bloat upto 150MB. Is there a way to read only the last say 100 lines of the file instead of the whole thing? I don't want to have to download a 150 MB file with my current connection. I'd rather SSH in and read the relevant parts.

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tail [filename]

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To expand on Farseeker's answer: tail -n 100 [filename] to get the last 100 lines.

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    Or: tail -100 foo
    – Jé Queue
    May 20, 2010 at 6:39
  • the -f option shows the last five, and then each new line as it comes in. You can also do things like -100f for the last 100 lines, then follow, and you can grep the output, just put "| grep ERROR" after any of these, and you will only see lines with ERROR in them
    – Ronald Pottol
    May 20, 2010 at 14:58

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