<div>                Thanks.<br><br>Andy<br><br>Sent via personal computer<br>"It is always too soon to quit."<br><br><br>            </div>            <div class="yahoo_quoted" style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc;padding-left:1ex;">                        <div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">                                <div>                    On Saturday, August 15, 2020, 07:53:11 PM CDT, Matthew Brush <mbrush@codebrainz.ca> wrote:                </div>                <div><br></div>                <div><br></div>                <div><div dir="ltr">On 2020-08-15 5:47 p.m., Matthew Brush wrote:<br clear="none">> On 2020-08-15 5:44 p.m., Andrew Kennedy via Users wrote:<br clear="none">>>   Thanks.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> This is MUCH shorter.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> tail -n 50 /var/log/syslog > end_syslog.txt<br clear="none">>> geany end_syslog.txt<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Indeed, I just offered a good general purpose wrapper script that does <br clear="none">> proper cleanup and saves a bit of typing.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">To be clear, with the setup as I described, you just run:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">geany-tail -n50 /var/log/syslog<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Rather than:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">tail -n 50 /var/log/syslog > end_syslog.txt<br clear="none">geany end_syslog.txt<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And it will cleanup the intermediate file automatically.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">All but line 39 in my pastebin only has to be done once to make the <br clear="none">'geany-tail' command available.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none">Matthew Brush<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Regards,<br clear="none">> Matthew Brush<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>> Sent via personal computer<br clear="none">>> "It is always too soon to quit."<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>>       On Saturday, August 15, 2020, 07:19:42 PM CDT, Matthew Brush <br clear="none">>> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mbrush@codebrainz.ca" href="mailto:mbrush@codebrainz.ca">mbrush@codebrainz.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>>   On 2020-08-15 3:33 p.m., Andrew Kennedy via Users wrote:<br clear="none">>>> I know this will display at line 900.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> However the syslog file is variable in length.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> geany -l 900 syslog.txt<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Can I have geany display just the last 50 lines?<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Thanks.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I'm not sure it can be done directly using Geany, but if you are on a<br clear="none">>> POSIX-ey OS with a BASH-like shell you can do something as described in<br clear="none">>> this pastebin:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="https://geany.org/p/q1SUz/" target="_blank">https://geany.org/p/q1SUz/</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I tested it on Ubuntu 20.04 and it works OK.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Regards,<br clear="none">>> Matthew Brush<br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> Users mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><div class="yqt7277070302" id="yqtfd66705"><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> Users mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Users mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mai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