in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large
error log file?

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / naveen badam

more <filename>

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / niranjan

1) more filename

2) less filename

3) cat filename|pg

4) pg filename

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / yuvaevergreen

various options are available. more,pg,less are available.
Generally,users view the last part of a log file.For that
tail is used.

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / subbareddy kake

tail -100 <filenme>:It gives last 100 lines of the file.

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / aseem

More command is most appropriate. Head and tail can only be
used is if you want to see, say 100 lines of files or
something like that but it never helpful to see the entire file.

more <file name>

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / dilipsimha

tail

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in UNIX ,What is the command to view contents of a large error log file? ..

Answer / kiruthiga.s

/var/adm/messages

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