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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. If no 17 .Ar file 18 is given, 19 .Nm 20 reads from stdin. 21 .Sh OPTIONS 22 .Bl -tag -width Ds 23 .It Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num 24 Display final 25 .Ar num 26 bytes | characters | lines | 27 lines. If 28 .Ar num 29 begins with '+' 30 it is an offset from the beginning of each 31 .Ar file . 32 If 33 .Ar num 34 begins with '-' it is as if no sign was given. The default is 10 lines. 35 .It Fl f 36 If one 37 .Ar file 38 is specified, append lines to output as 39 .Ar file 40 grows. 41 .El 42 .Sh SEE ALSO 43 .Xr head 1 44 .Sh STANDARDS 45 The 46 .Nm 47 utility is compliant with the 48 .St -p1003.1-2013 49 specification. 50 .Pp 51 The 52 .Op Fl Ns Ar num 53 syntax is an extension to that specification.