# Text lines tail

`text-lines-tail` · version 1.0.0 · Text · free, no key needed

Return the last n parsed lines with LF reconstruction.

**Use when you need to: text lines tail · last n lines · tail lines.**

## Supported

- text lines tail
- last n lines
- tail lines

## Not supported

- bytes tail
- follow
- negative n

## Behavior

- Split on CR LF, LF, or CR. Do not treat other Unicode separators as line breaks.
- A trailing terminator does not create an extra empty line.
- Empty document -> zero lines, trailing_terminator false.
- A document that is only a terminator -> one empty line, trailing_terminator true.
- A document with no terminator -> last line kept, trailing_terminator false.
- Preserve empty lines in the middle.
- Output reconstruction uses LF. If the result has at least one line, append a trailing LF iff the selected window includes the original trailing terminator or includes a line that was followed by a separator in the source.
- No trimming, case folding, Unicode normalization, or locale rules.
- n is a JSON integer, 0 <= n <= max_lines.
- If n exceeds available lines, return all lines.
- n = 0 yields empty text.
- Trailing terminator follows the original when the last original line is included.

## Input

- `text` (string, required): max length 256000
- `n` (integer, required): min 0; max 10000

## Output

- `text` (string, required)
- `lines_in` (integer, required)
- `lines_out` (integer, required)

## Limits

- max input bytes: 256000
- max lines: 10000

## Example

Request input:

```json
{
  "text": "a\nb\nc\n",
  "n": 2
}
```

Response:

```json
{
  "result": {
    "text": "b\nc\n",
    "lines_in": 3,
    "lines_out": 2
  }
}
```

## How to call it

### MCP

Connect `https://computefirst.net/mcp` ([setup](/docs#connect)), then call `execute` with:

```json
{
  "id": "text-lines-tail",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "text": "a\nb\nc\n",
    "n": 2
  }
}
```

### HTTP (no key)

```sh
curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/text-lines-tail/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"a\nb\nc\n","n":2}'
```

The machine-readable contract is at [/v1/tools/text-lines-tail/versions/1.0.0](/v1/tools/text-lines-tail/versions/1.0.0).

### CLI

```sh
node cli.mjs run text-lines-tail 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net
```

Get the client at [/clients/cli/](/clients/cli/).

## Related tools

- [Text lines head](/tools/text-lines-head): Return the first n parsed lines with LF reconstruction.
- [Text count](/tools/text-count): Count Unicode code points, UTF-16 code units, UTF-8 bytes, and lines.
- [Text line diff](/tools/text-line-diff): Diff two texts as line records, preserving each line terminator.
- [Text lines chunk](/tools/text-lines-chunk): Split parsed lines into consecutive chunks of size lines each.
- [Text lines count](/tools/text-lines-count): Count exact line multiplicities in first-seen order.
- [Text lines difference](/tools/text-lines-difference): Set difference a minus b using exact line equality.