Cut last 500 lines from logfile

Question

I want to cut the last 500 lines from a logfile and save it to a new file. Is there any unix command for this?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '11 at 02:15

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tail -n 500 logfile >newfile

should do the trick.

answered Aug 04 '11 at 02:15

womble

Doesn't actually remove the lines from the original file, but I'm sure he didn't want to do that anyway. – mfinni Aug 04 '11 at 02:45

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