If you want it continually updated you might try File::Tail http://search.cpan.org/author/MGRABNAR/File-Tail-0.98/Tail.pm
otherwise, use File::ReadBackwards http://search.cpan.org/author/URI/File-ReadBackwards-0.99/ReadBackwards.pm Tanton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Admin-Stress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:23 AM Subject: tailing a text file > Hi, > > Anyone have the fastest and efficien way to tail a text file ? > > suppose I have a text file "example.txt" and I want to print the last X lines. > > Thanks. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
