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gitaarik on March 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)

You know you can also do -C 40 for 40 lines of context instead of -A 20 -B 20

nkouevda on March 30, 2015 [–]

Note that -C is in each direction, not total; -C20 is equivalent to -A20 -B20.

jfroma on March 30, 2015 | [–]

Thank you,

This is the reason I always share how I do it in hn! LOL

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