On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Keith Dart wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mixer wrote:
> >
> > > Well this isn't really a Vtcl question but I am using Vtcl and trying to
>completely learn Tcl/Tk, so here goes.
> > >
> > > I want to do a tail on a file for the last line and then split up the line so I
>can manipulate the data, so I thought I could do this:
> > >
> > > set b [tail -1 filename]
> > > set c [split $b]
> >
> > You might try this:
> >
> > set b [system tail -1 filename]
> > set c [split $b]
>
> Is that some sort of extention? The normal command is
>
> set b [exec tail -1 filename]
Oops, bad advice. You're right, 'exec' is preferred. the 'system' command
is both a TclX and expect extension.
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