On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -exec tail -5 {} \;
>
> should work. You could also add various find options like -type f to make
> sure its a regular file and -mtime n to get recently modified files.
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> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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. but
>> what would work?
>>
>> thanks..
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Hey Cliff!!
Thanks.. works .. but I forgot one thing...
Is there a way to list the "file" prior to the tail or would that
require a bash/shell script.. I could have sworn that I've seen how to
accomplish this a while ago... arggh!
thanks..
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