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Operating Systems Solaris Tail for multiple files Post 302370712 by MartinF on Thursday 12th of November 2009 08:27:58 AM
Old 11-12-2009
Hello, thank you for your answer, it is really helpful, although I cannot use gnu tail now... but at least I know the reasonSmilie I'll make a script which will go through directory files and for each it will display last ten rows.
That will make it.
Have a nice day!
Martin
 

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