display last line

[himmat]

hi

1. I m just new to shell script.. here i have to display the last line of my file
without using "wc -l" command...

2. Also i want to know about any alternate command for "head" and "tail".

thankyou

[nmset]

wc -l will give you the count of lines and won't print any line.

tail is what almost any one would use for this kind of task.

You can also use sed to do this :

sed one-liners