You could tail -n 1000 | less
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 14:51, Scott H wrote:
> I use "less" to read log files, but I have
> noticed that on my RH7.3 mail server when a log
> file starts getting up there in size (50M? 100M?
> I'm not sure where it starts) I lose some
> functionality. For instance, normally I hit
> Shift-> to go to the bottom of the file, and then
> use "?" to search upward for the last instance of
> some string. But on larger files, Shift-> is
> unable to take me to the bottom. It just sort of
> stops, and when I hit Cntrl-C I get the message
> "Cannot seek to end of file (Press Return)".
> Pressing return just drops you back into the
> pager, where you were. Trying a search from the
> top for something you know is right near the
> bottom also fails. So I've resorted to
> workarounds using tail -4000 and grep and other
> such silliness, but that doesn't give me
> everything I need. I need to be able to hold the
> whole file in my buffer and move around in it.
> Can anyone recommend a good tool to be able to
> view and search large files? Or tell me what I'm
> doing wrong with less? Thanks!
>
> Scott
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