[thelist] perl: show me the last n lines from this file
Michael Styer
mas at codix.net
Mon May 14 04:14:43 CDT 2001
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Anthony Baratta wrote:
> At 01:29 PM 5/11/2001, you wrote:
> >Sam-I-Am wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to build a page (cgi) that displays the last say 20 access
> > > from the web access-log. (or 5k, or whatever)
>
> If this is a *NIX box why not try using the "tail" command?
>
> e.g.
>
> $Last20Lines = `tail -20 $TargetFileName`;
>
> print $Last20Lines;
if you want to look at them in reverse order (LIFO):
@last_lines = reverse `tail -20 $file_name`;
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