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1.1       root        1: .TH TAIL 1
                      2: .CT 1 files
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: tail, readslow \- deliver the last part of a file
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B tail
                      7: [
                      8: .BR +- \fInumber\fP[ lbc ][ rf ]
                      9: ]
                     10: [
                     11: .I file
                     12: ]
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Tail
                     15: copies the named file to the standard output beginning
                     16: at a designated place.
                     17: If no file is named, the standard input is used.
                     18: .PP
                     19: Copying begins at distance
                     20: .BI + number
                     21: from the beginning, or
                     22: .BI - number
                     23: from the end of the input.
                     24: .I Number
                     25: is counted in units of lines, 1K blocks or characters,
                     26: according to the appended flag
                     27: .BR l ,
                     28: .BR b ,
                     29: or
                     30: .BR c .
                     31: Defaults are
                     32: .BR -10l .
                     33: .PP
                     34: The further flag
                     35: .B r
                     36: causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order;
                     37: .B f
                     38: (follow) causes
                     39: .I tail,
                     40: after printing to the end, to keep watch and
                     41: print further data as it appears.
                     42: .SH EXAMPLES
                     43: .TP
                     44: .B tail file
                     45: Print the last 10 lines of a file.
                     46: .TP
                     47: .L tail +0f file
                     48: Print a file, and continue to watch
                     49: data accumulate as it grows.
                     50: This function was once called
                     51: .I readslow.
                     52: .TP
                     53: .L sed 10q file
                     54: Print the first 10 lines of a file.
                     55: Some systems call this function
                     56: .I head.
                     57: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     58: .IR dd (1)
                     59: .SH BUGS
                     60: Tails relative to the end of the file
                     61: are treasured up in a buffer, and thus
                     62: are limited in length.
                     63: .br
                     64: Various kinds of anomalous behavior may happen
                     65: with character special files.

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