Last line of file/Perl

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Mike Starke wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:41:50PM -0800, Matt Alexander wrote:
> /_tail -1 somefile ?
> /_
>
> I was actually looking for a Perl solution without having to read
> through the entire file.

I suppose:

$results = `tail -n1 $somefile`;

isn't good enough?

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