On 03/04/2018 11:43 AM, bruce wrote:
um.. hey guys....

I wanted to get the last X lines of each file from an input/wildcard
list of files !!

so.. I wanted the last 5 lines of the 126.pdf as well as the last 5
lines of the 125.pdf...
--NOT the last X files from a list of files..

There were already at least two different solutions posted.

tail -n 5 $(find /foo -name "*dog.dat")
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -print0 | xargs -0  tail -n5
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