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| author | joel <joel@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-16 22:53:38 +0000 |
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| committer | joel <joel@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-16 22:53:38 +0000 |
| commit | 2c33737ccb39296e83e0325b02a83ee7e1c5c95f (patch) | |
| tree | 1d7056ea05a6eeb491f12458285437b83325fab2 /usr.bin/tail/tail.1 | |
| parent | 4bbf2e81a6a3b076d53a9eb2d67eec6b39027517 (diff) | |
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Add a couple of examples.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/tail/tail.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/tail/tail.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 index d4ec2f9..4779bc1 100644 --- a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 +++ b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)tail.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 5, 2009 +.Dd March 16, 2013 .Dt TAIL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -147,6 +147,17 @@ is the name of the file unless flag is specified. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +To display the last 500 lines of the file +.Ar foo : +.Pp +.Dl $ tail -n 500 foo +.Pp +Keep +.Pa /var/log/messages +open, displaying to the standard output anything appended to the file: +.Pp +.Dl $ tail -f /var/log/messages .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cat 1 , .Xr head 1 , |
