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I have a file that has the following as the last three lines. I want to retrieve the penultimate line, i.e. 100.000;8438; 06:46:12.
. . . 99.900; 8423; 06:44:41 100.000;8438; 06:46:12 Number of patterns: 8438 I don't know the line number. How can I retrieve it using a shell script? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Use the tail command to write the file specified by the File parameter to standard output beginning at a specified point. This displays the last 10 lines of the accounts file. The tail command continues to display lines as they are added to the accounts file.
To look at the last few lines of a file, use the tail command. tail works the same way as head: type tail and the filename to see the last 10 lines of that file, or type tail -number filename to see the last number lines of the file.
tail [OPTION]... [ Tail is a command which prints the last few number of lines (10 lines by default) of a certain file, then terminates.
Try this:
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