On 7/25/05, FreeFall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try:
> perl -ne '$line=$_;END{print $line}' yourfile
>
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:09:50 +0530
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > hi ,
> > I am a perl newbie.
> > Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n
> > lines of a file.
> >
> > thanks in advance.
> > regards,
> > Kaushik
> >
perl -e'$n=shift; @x=<>; print splice(@x, -$n), "\n"' 123 yourfile
but really, on the command line you're better off just using tail if
you have it.
HTH,
-- jay
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