On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:

> On Mar 15, Chris Devers said:
> 
> >    system($command)
> >        or die "Couldn't run command '$command': $!";
> 
> That needs to be
> 
>   system($command) == 0
>     or die ...;
 
...which is all the more reason to avoid the system command :-)

There's no reason to solve this problem that way.

Just open the file, read to the last line, and close it.

Perl is completely capable of doing this alone on any platform.


 

-- 
Chris Devers

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