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Hello ChRy0, and welcome to the Monastery!

Have a look at the module File::ReadBackwards, which “is intended for processing log and other similar text files which typically have their newest entries appended to them.”

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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