On 03/03/2018 08:15 AM, bruce wrote:
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?

When you have more than one file you can't use "-5", you have to use the full option which is "-n 5". So this should work:

tail -n 5 $(find /foo -name "*dog.dat")
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