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gobeav3rs297

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From: Portland Oregon

Registered: 2007-11-06

Posts: 60

tail command question

Hi,

I want the tail command to output the end of a file up to a certain word/delimiter, is it possible?  I know I can set set a certain line number, but that's flexible enough.  I'm sure it can be done, I just not as familiar with linux commands just yet.  Thanks for the help.

Vincent

daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 470

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Re: tail command question

You can try mixing the tail with grep and cut to do some more good

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: tail command question

I found this among the sed one liners here : http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt

 # print section of file from regular expression to end of file
 sed -n '/regexp/,$p'

But the problem is that it does it from the first occurrence of the word / delimiter / regexp, which might not be what you want.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

gobeav3rs297

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From: Portland Oregon

Registered: 2007-11-06

Posts: 60

Re: tail command question

shining,

Thank you, I think this might just be exactly what i'm looking forward, I try it and report back.

Vincent

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: tail command question

awk 'BEGIN {RS="nonoccurring123332134" ; FS="the line"} {print $2}' filename