TAIL command not found

[igreenius]

Can someone help to install tail command?

I tried command below.

command: tail -1000 /var/log/syslog
result: tail -1000 /var/log/syslog: command not found

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Apr 21 2015 14:42:19
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version 2d5ad04b63af4233440c3f7c8587108223201102 (clean) (release)

[AndyD]

I am assuming that you are using Raspbian. Is that correct? If so the tail command is in the coreutils package and is installed by default.

What do you get if from

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ls -l /usr/bin/tail

[rpdom]

That looks like a copy/paste error. If the tail command wasn't installed you would get just

bash: tail: command not found

As you got the whole message it seems the shell isn't recognising the spaces, so they are possibly some bad characters if you copied the command from a website. Try typing it in by hand.

[igreenius]

AndyD, thanks for that. I realized that tail is indeed installed.
rpdom , thanks also for your thoughts.
My bad on this. I checked my code and I found out that I made a logic that if the phrase 'not found' is in the result. It will output the 'command + "command not found"'.
I think that the syslogs has an entry with 'not found' phrase that is why I'm getting the output.

I tried: tail -10 /var/log/syslog to get the last 10 entries and worked perfectly.

Thanks again.