On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 11:15 -0500, 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..
>
> find /foo -name "*dog.dat ... tail -5 << obviously not correct.
> but
> what would work?
I think the easy way is
$ find /foo -name "*dog.dat" | xargs tail -n5
or am I missing something?
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