Re: tail for a list of files

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On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>
>>
>> find .  -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
>>
>> does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
>> 126.pdf
>
>
> What does it print if you don't run it through tail?
>

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..

thanks


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