Add a couple of examples.

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Joel Dahl 2013-03-16 22:53:38 +00:00
parent 3f23d3ca9f
commit b16958a100
2 changed files with 26 additions and 2 deletions

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.\" @(#)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

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.\" @(#)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 ,