[MLUG] tail command & scripting

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm sure many are familiar with this command, but being still a newbie in
many areas, I just found out about it today.  With its obvious use in
reading error logs, I find it hard to believe I haven't seen it in manuals
or scripting guides before.  If you are like me, and haven't found out about
this command, it reads the last 10 lines of a file and outputs them for you.
You can -n a different range if you need more (or less?) of the file also,
making this ideal for debugging.  Before I had been grep'ing what I needed
by assumed timestamp or filename.

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