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Perl » File » file read

Read only the last file line from a text file


     



#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# tail2.pl



use strict;



open(FILE, '<', 'yourFile.txt') or die $!;

my @speech = <FILE>;   # slurp the whole file into memory

close FILE;



print "Last five lines:\n", @speech[-5 .. -1];

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