Subject: Shell question

From: "Marco Antonio Moreno" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 04:53:45 -0600

I have a file with names of files.
I want to "tail -10" to all these files. Who can I do it ?

Thanks for your help.

Regards.. Marco Moreno

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 14 Nov 1997 00:58:49 +0100

>> "MAM" == Marco Antonio Moreno <[email-masked]> writes:

MAM> I have a file with names of files.  I want to "tail -10" to all
MAM> these files. Who can I do it ?

for i in `cat file_with_names` ; do tail -10 $i ; done

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