http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/archive/doc/unix/unixhelp/Unixhelp/tasks_display3.1.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)1. To display the last 10 lines of a text file;
tail fred
This displays the last 10 lines of the file fred which is in the current directory.
2. To display the last 50 characters in a file:
tail -50c help.txt
This displays the last 50 characters in the file help.txt which is in the current directory.