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HowTo read last line in a file

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rvarman

rvarman

IS-IT--Management
Apr 24, 2003
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Hi,

In a loop (ksh), i can't able to read my last line.
While read line
do
echo
done < file

Can anyone give me your ideas
Thanks
 
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for line in `tail -1 file`
do
echo $line
done

seems to do the trick. HTH.
 
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Merci beaucoup,

Really it works fine.
Thank you very much
 
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