From 2c33737ccb39296e83e0325b02a83ee7e1c5c95f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joel <joel@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:53:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a couple of examples.

Obtained from:	OpenBSD
---
 usr.bin/head/head.1 | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 usr.bin/tail/tail.1 | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/head/head.1 b/usr.bin/head/head.1
index 0e16477aae28..9bc341359684 100644
--- a/usr.bin/head/head.1
+++ b/usr.bin/head/head.1
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)head.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dd March 16, 2013 
 .Dt HEAD 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ where
 is the name of the file.
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To display the first 500 lines of the file
+.Ar foo :
+.Pp
+.Dl $ head -n 500 foo
+.Pp
+.Nm
+can be used in conjunction with
+.Xr tail 1
+in the following way to, for example, display only line 500 from the file
+.Ar foo :
+.Pp
+.Dl $ head -n 500 foo | tail -n 1
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr tail 1
 .Sh HISTORY
diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
index d4ec2f9ad457..4779bc17407a 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)tail.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 5, 2009
+.Dd March 16, 2013 
 .Dt TAIL 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -147,6 +147,17 @@ is the name of the file unless
 flag is specified.
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To display the last 500 lines of the file
+.Ar foo :
+.Pp
+.Dl $ tail -n 500 foo
+.Pp
+Keep
+.Pa /var/log/messages
+open, displaying to the standard output anything appended to the file:
+.Pp
+.Dl $ tail -f /var/log/messages
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr cat 1 ,
 .Xr head 1 ,