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From: rhartman@thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to print last <n> pages of a file?
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Date: 2 May 91 22:57:50 GMT
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In article <1991May2.162355.779@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>How can I print the last <n> pages of a text file?  Said file has form
>feeds at random places, so "tail -132 file | lpr" won't work.  Now, I tried
>"pr file | tail -132" but that includes the 5-line headers and footers
>that I don't want and don't get with "lpr file".  So I tried 
>"pr -t file | tail -132" but the -t option turns off page filling so the
>form feeds aren't expanded :-(.
>
>Any suggestions?  SunOS 4.1 over here.

Sounds like a job for csplit to me!  Split the pr output at the ^L characters,
and take the last n resulting files!

-r