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I can't think of why (in normal circumstances) perl would read only part of a file.

Perhaps the file is UTF8 encoded, while your terminal is set to latin1? I have seen terminals been blown up by UTF8, and after the shell gained control, the terminal settings being restored and the prompt returning as if nothing happened.

Do you see the last line of the file in question with the following? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open(GRADE, "/home/jesse/Desktop/grades/history.txt");

while ($test = <GRADE>) {
    ; # do nothing
}
print $test; # print last line
close GRADE;

[download]

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: Perl doesn't read whole file by shmem
in thread Perl doesn't read whole file by colonelcrayon

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