From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T08:56:40+09:00
Subject: Re: get first and last line from txt file - how?

* Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> (22:56) schrieb:

> Why re-invent the wheel?
>
> lastline = `tail -1 queued.txt`

Cause there's not always a tool out there to do the job.

New programming languages are always reinventing wheels.

mfg,             simon .... l