From: prasad c <prasad.c82@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T13:53:54+09:00
Subject: Re: finding last line in a file

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last_line = ''
IO.popen("tail -n 1 #{file_name}") { |f| last_line = f.gets }

Regards,
Prasad C

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there a one line command to do this?
>
> I mean currently I use
>
> File.foreach(inFile) do |line|
> ...
> done
>
> I could do this with a counter, but that is SO UGLY, and I want to do an
> operation on that very last line.
>
> Regards,
> Ted.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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