NAME

tail - print last lines of a file   



SYNOPSIS

tail [-n] [file....]



DESCRIPTION 

Tail
prints the last "n" lines of the indicated file.
If 'n' is omitted, the last 23 lines are printed.   
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If "file" is omitted or is "-", tail reads the standard input.  


SEE ALSO

split   


AUTHORS 

David Hanson and friends (U. of Arizona)


BUGS/DEFICIENCIES   

An internal buffer of MAXBUF characters is kept.
If the value of "n" would require buffering more characters than
the buffer can hold,
tail
prints the last MAXBUF characters of the file.  
In this case, the first line of output may not be an entire line.   
MAXBUF is a definition in the source code which may be adjusted.