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1 .Dd 2015-10-08 2 .Dt TAIL 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm tail 6 .Nd display final lines of files 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl f 10 .Op Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num 11 .Op Ar file ... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 writes the last 10 lines of each 15 .Ar file 16 to stdout. 17 If no 18 .Ar file 19 is given, 20 .Nm 21 reads from stdin. 22 .Sh OPTIONS 23 .Bl -tag -width Ds 24 .It Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num 25 Display final 26 .Ar num 27 bytes | characters | lines | lines. 28 If 29 .Ar num 30 begins with '+' 31 it is an offset from the beginning of each 32 .Ar file . 33 If 34 .Ar num 35 begins with '-' it is as if no sign was given. 36 The default is 10 lines. 37 .It Fl f 38 If one 39 .Ar file 40 is specified, append lines to output as 41 .Ar file 42 grows. 43 .El 44 .Sh SEE ALSO 45 .Xr head 1 46 .Sh STANDARDS 47 The 48 .Nm 49 utility is compliant with the 50 .St -p1003.1-2013 51 specification. 52 .Pp 53 The 54 .Op Fl Ns Ar num 55 syntax is an extension to that specification.