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small documentation change in tail
From: |
bhargav joshi |
Subject: |
small documentation change in tail |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:00:55 +0530 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) |
If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a ‘+’,
print beginning with the Nth item
from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in the
file. N may have a multiplier suf-
fix: b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.
above documentation is cryptic
+ <value> print all lines starting from <value>th line
- <value> print the last <value> lines
eg: if value=3
tail +3 <filename> print all lines starting from 3rd line
tail -3 <filename> prints last 3 lines
- small documentation change in tail,
bhargav joshi <=