2008/9/10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > i want get the time specified in last line of the file. > For eg: > $tail -2 test.log > 2008 aug 25 14:48:42.800 Sending ping message; > 2008 aug 25 14:48:43.390 Sending ping message; > The file size is huge, so i dont want to read the entire file to get > the last line. Is there any way to get the last line of a file > directly in perl?
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