On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/03/18 17:15, bruce wrote: > Hi Bruce, >> >> 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! > > Indee > >> what would work? > > > If I understood you correctly, then > > find /foo -name "*dog.dat"|tail -5 > > should do the job. You forgot the pipe sign :-) > > > Kind regards > > Joachim Backes > >> >> thanks.. >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > > -- > > Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven) > Kernel-4.15.7-300.fc27.x86_64 > > > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/ > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Joachim... For a single file that works however if I want to generate the "tail" of each file in a list of files find /foo -name "*dog.dat" | tail -5 doesn't get the individual files.. it gets the "tail " of the filelist. thanks _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
