From 39dbcb99b31a2567fdf12591828f739d92f19053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ford Hurley <ford.hurley@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:49:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add tail.md

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 common/tail.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 common/tail.md

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+# tail
+
+> Display the last part of a file
+
+- show last 'num' lines in file
+
+`tail -n {{num}} {{file}}`
+
+- show last 'num' bytes in file
+
+`tail -c {{num}} {{file}}`
+
+- keep reading file until ctrl-c
+
+`tail -f {{file}}`