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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read few last lines of a file Post 302702179 by bhupinder08 on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 03:46:07 AM
Old 09-18-2012
Thanks all for your reply.

The AWK solution seems to be suiting better for my requirement.
"awk '/START/{p=1;sect=""}p{sect=sect?sect RS $0:$0}/END/{p=0}END{print sect}' file"

Here is it possible that I can make use of regular expressions with START and END since there is a numeric value appended. E.g. START3/END3.

On the same question, how can I read the same file Starting START3 and read till end of file without considering the END tag? Which means START3, START4 .. till end will be displayed. Can the existing solution be modified?

Thanks again.
 

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ModPerl::Global -- Perl API for manipulating special Perl lists Synopsis use ModPerl::Global (); my $package = 'MyApache2::Package'; # make the END blocks of this package special ModPerl::Global::special_list_register(END => $package); # Execute all encoutered END blocks from this package now ModPerl::Global::special_list_call( END => $package); # delete the list of END blocks ModPerl::Global::special_list_clear( END => $package); Description "ModPerl::Global" provides an API to manipulate special perl lists. At the moment only the "END" blocks list is supported. This API allows you to change the normal Perl behavior, and execute special lists when you need to. For example "ModPerl::RegistryCooker" uses it to run "END" blocks in the scripts at the end of each request. Before loading a module containing package $package, you need to register it, so the special blocks will be intercepted by mod_perl and not given to Perl. "special_list_register" does that. Later on when you want to execute the special blocks, "special_list_call" should be called. Unless you want to call the list more than once, clear the list with "special_list_clear". API
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