tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print the last 10 lines (by default) of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.
linux3[327]% cat txt #[1]Creative Commons [2]copyright It costs US$10 an hour to run Wikimedia websites. You can [3]donate here (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising) to help us raise $50,000 to keep our websites running smoothly. We have less than $15,000 to go thanks to [4]all those who have donated (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2004/Q4/Most_recent_d ay)! ... (snipped) ... 373. http://www.mediawiki.org/ 374. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html 375. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License 376. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights 377. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About 378. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer Hidden links: 379. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ 380. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page linux3[328]% |
linux3[328]% tail unix.txt 373. http://www.mediawiki.org/ 374. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html 375. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License 376. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights 377. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About 378. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer Hidden links: 379. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ 380. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page linux3[329]% |
Print last NUMBER lines instead of default last 10.
linux3[333]% tail -n 1 mlb.h #endif linux3[334]% |