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<tool id="unitools_tail_tool" name="Select last" version="0.1.1">
    <description>lines from a dataset (tail)</description>
    <requirements>
        <requirement type="package" version="8.21">gnu_coreutils</requirement>
    </requirements>
    <command>
        tail --lines $count '$input1' &gt; '$output'
    </command>

    <inputs>
        <param format="txt" name="input1" type="data" label="file to cut" />
        <param name="count" type="integer" size="5"  value="10" label="Output last X lines" help="" />
    </inputs>

    <outputs>
        <data format="input" name="output" metadata_source="input1"/>
    </outputs>
    <help>

**What it does**

This tool runs the **tail** unix command, which discards lines from the beginning of a file.

    </help>
</tool>