On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 13:18 +0100, Stewart Anderson wrote:
> How about a system(tail -x inputfile >> mylastfile) type call to
> get the last line and then open the mylastfile to work on the line
> there?
>
The UNIX utility tail(1) still reads the entire file.
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