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Version: 3.9.0

tail Command

The tail command returns the last n elements of the input stream. The beginning of the stream is consumed but discarded.

The command returns 100 elements by default if the number of elements is not specified.

Usage

tail <n>

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionRequired?Default Value
nNumber of elements to return100

Examples

> json [1,2,3,4,5] | tail -2
​4
​5
> query is(volume) | tail -2
​kind=aws_ec2_volume, id=vol-0, name=vol-0, age=2mo1d, cloud=aws, account=dev, region=us-west-2
​kind=gcp_disk, id=123, name=gke-1, age=7mo22d, cloud=gcp, account=eng, region=us-west1, zone=us-west1-a

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