Dave Adams wrote: > Larsen, > Hi Dave. My name is Errin. Larsen is my surname.
Please, when posting replies, post to the list. > I am afraid I cannot get your suggested code to work. Especially > line that reads "foreach reverse 0..$n;" <SNIP> > > On 7/25/05, Larsen, Errin M HMMA/Information Technology Department > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I shortened this up a bit: >> >> perl -e 'open FH, "$filename"; @lines=reverse <FH>; print $lines[$_] >> foreach reverse 0..$n;' >> >> Where "$filename" is replaced with the name of the file and "$n" is >> replaced with the number of lines to display. >> First, can you tell us about your environment? UNIX or Windows? Other OS? What version of Perl? Please give us more details. Second, you can try making the line more "correct": perl -e 'open FH, "<$filename"; @lines=reverse(<FH>); print($lines[$_]) foreach(reverse(0..$n));' See how that line does. Third, as I mentioned, the '$n' part of that command line needs to be replaced with a number, AND the '$filename' part of that command line needs to be replaced with a file name. If I have a file named 'foo.bar', and I want to see the last 25 lines of it, I would type: perl -e 'open FH, "foo.bar"; @lines=reverse FH; print $lines[$_] foreach reverse 0..25;' I hope that is helpful! --Errin PS I just re-read you question (above) and I realized maybe you hadn't realized the code I posted was all on one command line. Make sure you don't hit 'enter' until the entire command line is typed in. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
