> On Oct 22, 2022, at 10:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> <perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to print only the last three lines
> in a long file (full on \n's).
>
>
> In Windows, I am trying to such the last the lines is
>
> > dir /s /A:-D /d /a
> ...
> Total Files Listed:
> 13671 File(s) 3,265,285,462 bytes
> 3917 Dir(s) 18,406,518,784 bytes free
>
> And yes, I know how to do it,
It would be generally helpful to tell us the way that you already "know how to
do it", so that if our guesswork is insufficiently astute, we don't waste time
telling you what you already know.
> but IT AIN'T PRETTY!
> I want pretty.
>
> -T
$ raku -e '.say for 1..1_000_000' > a.1
# Made a million-line file, for testing
$ time raku -e '.say for lines().tail(3)' a.1
999998
999999
1000000
real 0m2.155s
user 0m1.727s
sys 0m0.249s
On Unix or Mac systems (and maybe Windows, UnxUtils or CygWin or GnuWin32 or
Microsoft's own "Windows Subsystem for Linux"), faster (and prettier) to pipe
to `tail -3`.
$ tail -3 a.1
(and I presume)
C:\> dir /s /A:-D /d /a | tail -3
--
Hope this helps,
Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
