Correction - I shouldn't have copy and pasted. drop the {} \; from the
script
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -print0 | xargs -0 tail -n5
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:40 AM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> For that I think you need to use xarg as:
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -print0 | xargs -0 tail -n5 {} \;
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