How to filter only the last 'n' lines of a grep output?

shell_newbie · March 17, 2011, 4:03am

I am running a grep query for searching a pattern, and the output is quite huge. I want only the last 200 lines to be displayed, and I am not sure if tail will do the trick (can tail read from std in/out instead of files?).
Please help me out.

tene · March 17, 2011, 4:12am

grep <pattern> <file> | tail -200