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man+tail: Bring the manpage of tail up to date

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@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ $ tail [-f] [-n number] [file]
## Options
* `-f`, `--follow`: Output data as it is written to the file
* `-n number`, `--lines number`: Print the specified number of lines
* `-n [+]NUM`, `--lines [+]NUM`: output the last NUM lines, instead of the last 10; or use -n +NUM to output starting with line NUM
* `-c [+]NUM`, `--bytes [+]NUM`: output the last NUM bytes; or use -n +NUM to output starting with byte NUM
## Arguments
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Print the last 42 lines of todo.txt:
```sh
$ tail -n42 todo.txt
$ tail -n 42 todo.txt
```
Print the last lines as they are written to logs.log:
@ -38,6 +39,16 @@ Print the last lines as they are written to logs.log:
$ tail -f logs.log
```
Print everything but the first line of foobar.csv
```sh
$ tail -n +2 foobar.csv
```
Print the last 1337 bytes of leet.txt
```sh
$ tail -c 1337 leet.txt
```
## See also
* [`head`(1)](help://man/1/head)