[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi ,

Hello,

>         I am a perl newbie.
> Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n 
> lines of a file.

perl -ne'INIT{$#x=shift()[EMAIL PROTECTED](splice(@x,1),$_)[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 4 
yourfile



John

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