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+.\"	$NetBSD: tail.1,v 1.4 1994/11/23 07:42:13 jtc Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993
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+.\"	@(#)tail.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dt TAIL 1
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm tail
+.Nd display the last part of a file
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm tail
+.Op Fl f Li | Fl r
+.Oo
+.Fl b Ar number |
+.Fl c Ar number |
+.Fl n Ar number
+.Oc
+.Op Ar file ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm tail
+utility displays the contents of
+.Ar file
+or, by default, its standard input, to the standard output.
+.Pp
+The display begins at a byte, line or 512-byte block location in the
+input.
+Numbers having a leading plus (``+'') sign are relative to the beginning
+of the input, for example,
+.Dq -c +2
+starts the display at the second
+byte of the input.
+Numbers having a leading minus (``-'') sign or no explicit sign are
+relative to the end of the input, for example,
+.Dq -n 2
+displays the last two lines of the input.
+The default starting location is
+.Dq -n 10 ,
+or the last 10 lines of the input.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl b Ar number
+The location is
+.Ar number
+512-byte blocks.
+.It Fl c Ar number
+The location is
+.Ar number
+bytes.
+.It Fl f
+The
+.Fl f
+option causes
+.Nm tail
+to not stop when end of file is reached, but rather to wait for additional
+data to be appended to the input.
+The
+.Fl f
+option is ignored if the standard input is a pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
+.It Fl n Ar number
+The location is
+.Ar number
+lines.
+.It Fl r
+The
+.Fl r
+option causes the input to be displayed in reverse order, by line.
+Additionally, this option changes the meaning of the
+.Fl b ,
+.Fl c
+and
+.Fl n
+options.
+When the
+.Fl r
+option is specified, these options specify the number of bytes, lines
+or 512-byte blocks to display, instead of the bytes, lines or blocks
+from the beginning or end of the input from which to begin the display.
+The default for the
+.Fl r
+option is to display all of the input.
+.El
+.Pp
+If more than a single file is specified, each file is preceded by a
+header consisting of the string
+.Dq ==> XXX <==
+where
+.Dq XXX
+is the name of the file.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm tail
+utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr cat 1 ,
+.Xr head 1 ,
+.Xr sed 1
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm tail
+utility is expected to be a superset of the 
+.St -p1003.2-92 
+specification.
+In particular, the
+.Fl b
+and
+.Fl r
+options are extensions to that standard.
+.Pp
+The historic command line syntax of
+.Nm tail
+is supported by this implementation.
+The only difference between this implementation and historic versions
+of
+.Nm tail ,
+once the command line syntax translation has been done, is that the
+.Fl b ,
+.Fl c
+and
+.Fl n
+options modify the
+.Fl r
+option, i.e. ``-r -c 4'' displays the last 4 characters of the last line
+of the input, while the historic tail (using the historic syntax ``-4cr'')
+would ignore the
+.Fl c
+option and display the last 4 lines of the input.
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm tail
+command appeared in
+.At v7 .