Re: [MacPerl] How to simulate a call to 'tail' in MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 15.38 -0500 1999.01.29, John Gilmore-Baldwin wrote:
>You could use the seek function in perl to get toward the end of a file
>(after doing a file size check), the read the file line by line and print
>out the last line you encounter.

You can seek directly to the end by passing seek a WHENCE of 2, and then an
offset of a negative value, so seek(F, -100, 2) would position F at 100
bytes from the end.  Then you can do what you want with the data that is
left.

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