If like me you need to check out the PHP error log, but its bloody massive, you might want to take the last few lines of it.

tail -x log_file > new_log

That will take the last x number of lines from log_file and save into new_log

tail -10000 /var/log/httpd/error_log > ~/short_error_log

The above example will take the last 10,000 lines of the Apache error log, and save it into a new file ‘short_error_log’ in your home folder.

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