brian at polibyte.com brian at polibyte.com
Sat Apr 24 00:50:26 BST 2010


On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:26:18 -0400, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 18:15 -0400, Keith Kuslak wrote:
>> Also check out /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what the last few (maybe up
>> to 20ish lines or so ... just keep reading backwards until you see an
>> error)
> 
> A nifty trick that some don't know for reading log files backwards:  use
> tac, not cat.

That is cool. Also, pressing 'G' will take you to the end of a file in
less or vim.

All the best,
Brian Pitts



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