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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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