find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -exec tail -5 {} \;
should work. You could also add various find options like -type f to make
sure its a regular file and -mtime n to get recently modified files.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey..
>
> Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
> possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
>
> I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate
> the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure out the syntax..
>
> thoughts??
>
> find /foo -name "*dog.dat ... tail -5 << obviously not correct. but
> what would work?
>
> thanks..
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