Linux Tutorials | Print line between M and N lines head and tail combined | GeeksforGeeks

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[@NoEgg4u]

tail with the "-f" option is very handy for monitoring a file.
If the lines that tail displays should change (for example, more data is written to the file), you will see the change.
This is handy for monitoring a log file.

[@abhijeetawari9371]

it did not work well with me after applying some tails cmd with pipes then used head for top 3 line ,o/p of those tail did not got passed to the head

[@maheswaris3735]

I get the input from user , I’ll write like
read num
read y
//num is 5 and y is txt file
head -n $num $y
It shows error as head:invalid number of lines:’3
’
Could someone help with this?

[@arpit39agarwal]

can't we use head -n states.txt|tail -n +5 ??