I am looking for the equivalent for the command below which works on AIX and Linux machines but not on Sun Solaris machines. Basically it is tailing the file and getting only the last 10 characters of the file:
tail -c -10 filename.txt
Any ideas??
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Possible duplicate of [What's the Solaris equivalent to the BSD's 'tail -n100'?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/314321/whats-the-solaris-equivalent-to-the-bsds-tail-n100) – DirkyJerky Aug 06 '17 at 23:34
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that is not the same – Connie Walker Aug 07 '17 at 01:09
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they are counting lines, as i need to count characters – Connie Walker Aug 07 '17 at 01:10
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According to the tail manual page, the xpg4 variant will do what was asked:
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
-c number The number option-argument must be a decimal integer
whose sign affects the location in the file, measured in
bytes, to begin the copying:
+ Copying starts relative to the beginning of the
file.
- Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
none Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
The origin for counting is 1; that is, -c +1 represents
the first byte of the file, -c -1 the last.
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Thank you! it worked when i used that full path instead of just using tail – Connie Walker Aug 07 '17 at 15:20
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Solaris 11.2 tail get the last 100 lines from file: tail -100 filename.txt
Solaris 11.2 get very last character with tail: /usr/xpg4/bin/tail -c -2 saida.txt
get 2 last characters with tail: /usr/xpg4/bin/tail -c -3 saida.txt
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