One difference between the one liner and your code (other than the original one liner prints the last 200 instead of the last 20 lines) is that the original one-liner handles files having less than 200 lines gracefully. If "screenlog.0" has less than 200 lines, your code will spit out a warning and a blank line of each line "missing". That is, if screenlog.0 only has 30 lines, the original shell one liner will put 30 lines in screenlog, and generate no warnings, while your code will issue 170 warnings, and put 170 additional blank lines in "screenlog".

Shell commands rewritten in Perl will often seem horribly verbose, but don't be discouraged.
I'd say, if you want to rewrite shell commands in Perl, think twice, don't do it, and if you insist and need advice, get that advice from shell experts.

In reply to Re^2: Mini bash script to perl by JavaFan
in thread Mini bash script to perl by Anonymous Monk

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