Dave Adams wrote:
> I have a 2 gig log file and I need to read only the last 10 lines.
>
> I was also thinking something like:
>
> 1. Read in File
> 2. Get number of lines
> 3. Print last ten lines
>
> or something like that.
>
> DA
>
You may want to think this out in that you want to do some type of seek
against an filehandle to get to the end of the data otherwise you will end up
reading all 2 gigs. You might at least give a quick shot at
File::Readbackwards to see what happens and time frames, etc.
Wags ;)
> On 4/19/05, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dave Adams wrote:
>>> I am new to PERL but how would I write a script that would read in a
>>> file and output the last 10 lines?
>>>
>>> I guess it is sort of like the UNIX command of Tail.
>>>
>>> Any ideas, much appreciated.
>>>
>>> DA
>> I did a cpan search and got File::ReadBackwards . What type
>> of files desring to read and size of said files?
>>
>> Wags ;)
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