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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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