Last line of file/Perl

yea nad cant you do

use Shell qw(tail);

or something like that. I used it once to gain perl syntax access ot
shell commands

Bill

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:56, Voltage Spike wrote:
> > 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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