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Read only the last file line from a text file

     

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# tail2.pl

use strict;

open(FILE, '<', 'yourFile.txt') or die $!;
my @speech = <FILE>;   # slurp the whole file into memory
close FILE;

print "Last five lines:\n", @speech[-5 .. -1];








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