tail

Display the last part of a file. See also: head. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/tail.1.html.

• Show last 'count' lines in file:

tail -n 8 path/to/file

• Print a file from a specific line number:

tail -n +8 path/to/file

• Print a specific count of bytes from the end of a given file:

tail -c 8 path/to/file

• Print the last lines of a given file and keep reading it until Ctrl + C:

tail -f path/to/file

• Keep reading file until Ctrl + C, even if the file is inaccessible:

tail -F path/to/file

• Show last 'count' lines in 'file' and refresh every 'seconds' seconds:

tail -n 8 -s 10 -f path/to/file