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minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoReverse chronological order, mostly tac log.txt |head # would give you newest first no good for sort because sort already supports -r no need it for tail on large files because tail already skips to the end. I do a lot of impromptu bash to sus crap out of logs. when you’re balls deep in cat log|grep -v foo| rev|cut -f 1-3 -d \ | |rev Sometimes tac comes in clutch.
Reverse chronological order, mostly
tac log.txt |head # would give you newest first
no good for sort because sort already supports -r
no need it for tail on large files because tail already skips to the end.
I do a lot of impromptu bash to sus crap out of logs.
when you’re balls deep in
cat log|grep -v foo| rev|cut -f 1-3 -d \ | |rev
Sometimes tac comes in clutch.