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daacd5f0 | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 Regents of the University of California. |
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2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
4 | .\" | |
daacd5f0 | 5 | .\" @(#)tail.1 6.4 (Berkeley) %G% |
09d34764 | 6 | .\" |
daacd5f0 | 7 | .TH TAIL 1 "%Q" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
10 | tail \- deliver the last part of a file | |
11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
12 | .B tail | |
9ee772fc | 13 | [\fB+-\fP]\fBnumber\fP[\fBlbc\fP][\fBrf\fP] [\fBfile\fP] |
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14 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
15 | .I Tail | |
16 | copies the named file to the standard output beginning | |
17 | at a designated place. | |
18 | If no file is named, the standard input is used. | |
19 | .PP | |
20 | Copying begins at distance | |
21 | .I +number | |
22 | from the beginning, or | |
23 | .I \-number | |
24 | from the end of the input. | |
25 | .I Number | |
26 | is counted in units of lines, blocks or characters, | |
27 | according to the appended option | |
28 | .B l, | |
29 | .B b | |
30 | or | |
31 | .B c. | |
32 | When no units are specified, counting is by lines. | |
33 | .PP | |
34 | Specifying | |
35 | .B r | |
36 | causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order. | |
37 | The default for | |
38 | .B r | |
39 | is to print the entire file this way. | |
40 | Specifying | |
41 | .B f | |
42 | causes | |
43 | .I tail | |
44 | to not quit at end of file, but rather wait and try to read repeatedly | |
45 | in hopes that the file will grow. | |
46 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
47 | dd(1) | |
48 | .SH BUGS | |
49 | Tails relative to the end of the file | |
50 | are treasured up in a buffer, and thus | |
51 | are limited in length. | |
52 | .PP | |
53 | Various kinds of anomalous behavior may happen | |
54 | with character special files. |