Thanks.
This is MUCH shorter.
tail -n 50 /var/log/syslog > end_syslog.txt
geany end_syslog.txt
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On Saturday, August 15, 2020, 07:19:42 PM CDT, Matthew Brush
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2020-08-15 3:33 p.m., Andrew Kennedy via Users wrote:
> I know this will display at line 900.
>
> However the syslog file is variable in length.
>
> geany -l 900 syslog.txt
>
> Can I have geany display just the last 50 lines?
>
> Thanks.
>
I'm not sure it can be done directly using Geany, but if you are on a
POSIX-ey OS with a BASH-like shell you can do something as described in
this pastebin:
https://geany.org/p/q1SUz/
I tested it on Ubuntu 20.04 and it works OK.
Regards,
Matthew Brush
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