On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> 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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