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TAIL(1)General Commands ManualTAIL(1)

NAME

tail - the last lines of something

SYNOPSIS

tail [-n count] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The last lines of each file, or of what a pipe hands it. -f is not here: nothing on this site is still being written to.

OPTIONS

-n count
how many lines. -3, -n 3 and -n3 all mean three; ten if you say nothing.

EXAMPLES

grep -rl is | tail -2

tail -1 /tmp/out.txt

SEE ALSO

head(1), cat(1), grep(1)

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