[GLLUG] grep help

[Mike Szumlinski]

Actually, almost there.  I also want the first line as well as the last 
3 of each file.

On May 11, 2005, at 3:06 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:

> If I am understanding you, then all you want is the last three lines
> of output?  If that is the case, you can use the tail command, like so
>
>    grep blah blah blah | tail -3
>
> The cool cool thing about the shell is that you have all these little
> programs, like grep, head, tail, awk, sed, cut, etc that are tools
> that do on thing, which can be tacked together for a custom tool.