Tail/head all line except X last/first Lines

If you have GNU head, you can use

head -n -5 file.txt

to print all but the last 5 lines of file.txt.

If head -n takes no negative arguments, try

head -n $(( $(wc -l file.txt | awk '{print $1}') - 5 )) file.txt

It might be easier if you use more than one line to do this. You could write a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

tail -f test.log | while read line; do
    if echo "$line" | grep -q "Error"; then
        echo "$line" >> error.log
    elif echo "$line" | grep -q "Warning"; then
        echo "$line" >> warning.log
    # The following is in case you want to print out lines that do not match 
    else
        echo "$line"
    fi
done