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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"            @(#)tail.1      6.4 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH TAIL 1 "%Q"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: tail \- deliver the last part of a file
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B tail
        !            13: [\fB+-\fP]\fBnumber\fP[\fBlbc\fP][\fBrf\fP] [\fBfile\fP]
        !            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.

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