Fellow monks,

My ignorance is again shining brightly. it is well polished and lacks no luster.

I have only spartan knowledge of file seek, search, and rewind functionality and such things. I wonder if there is another way than reading the contents of a file to get the last line. I do not wish to load the file contents into an array as this would prov cumbersome.

I seek your wisdom in order to facilitate the following task: I wish to mimmick the soiled, non-Perl ways of shell, by implementing an equivalent of tail -1 myfile

This clearly would be an easy task for backticks, but I fear their demonic ways and wish to attempt to avoid them like the plage they can be.

The ignorant one.

--Hackmare.

In reply to Reading the last line of a file in a Pure Way. by hackmare

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