How can I use bat command as an alternative to tail command?

Ridwan Faiz

1/8/24, 3:50 PM

I love the syntax highlighting of cat. So I want to use it as an alternative to tail command. But I cannot find a generic way to accomplish this. But I can use this command as an alternative to tail if I know the line numbers of the file.

e.g: if a file named test.log contains 90 lines, I can use the following command to print the last 10 lines.

batcat --line-range "80:" test.log

But I can't do the same if I don't know the line numbers of file. Is there any other way?

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chili555

1/8/24, 5:00 PM

Please try: `cat test.log | tail -n10` Welcome to Ask Ubuntu.

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sean

1/8/24, 9:53 PM

tail -n10 is the proper shortest answer, but to do it by running batcat:

batcat --line-range $(expr $(wc -l /etc/hosts | cut -d" " -f 1) - 1): /etc/hosts

You just change the -1 to whatever number of lines you want -1, so if you want 10 you set it to -9. The ":" in batcat doesn't take negative number, so no shortcut.

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