duncan at sodatrain.com writes: > 1) Truncate a log file to a specific number of lines so that lines > from the beginning of the file are deleted until the specified number > of lines remain. tail -nLINES logfile > tmp && mv tmp logfile > 2) Split a log file into 2 files so that a certain number of lines are > removed from the primary file and dumped into a secondary file split -nLINES logfile tmp && mv tmpaa old && mv tmpab logfile -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list