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1.1     ! root        1: .TH TAIL 1  "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: tail \- deliver the last part of a file
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B tail
        !             7: .if t [ \(+-number[\fBlbc\fR][\fBfr\fR] ]
        !             8: .if n +_number[lbc___][r_f_]
        !             9: [ file ]
        !            10: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            11: .I Tail
        !            12: copies the named file to the standard output beginning
        !            13: at a designated place.
        !            14: If no file is named, the standard input is used.
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: Copying begins at distance
        !            17: .I +number
        !            18: from the beginning, or
        !            19: .I \-number
        !            20: from the end of the input.
        !            21: .I Number
        !            22: is counted in units of lines, blocks or characters,
        !            23: according to the appended option
        !            24: .B l,
        !            25: .B b
        !            26: or
        !            27: .B c.
        !            28: When no units are specified, counting is by lines.
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: Specifying
        !            31: .B r
        !            32: causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order.
        !            33: The default for
        !            34: .B r
        !            35: is to print the entire file this way.
        !            36: Specifying
        !            37: .B f
        !            38: causes
        !            39: .I tail
        !            40: to not quit at end of file, but rather wait and try to read repeatedly
        !            41: in hopes that the file will grow.
        !            42: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            43: dd(1)
        !            44: .SH BUGS
        !            45: Tails relative to the end of the file
        !            46: are treasured up in a buffer, and thus 
        !            47: are limited in length.
        !            48: .PP
        !            49: Various kinds of anomalous behavior may happen
        !            50: with character special files.

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