Re: Read last expression in a file?
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- Subject: [mg116113] Re: Read last expression in a file?
- From: Chris Degnen <degnen at cwgsy.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:10:13 -0500 (EST)
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You can find a Windows (XP) version of tail here: http://malektips.com/xp_dos_0001.html (from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools). While 'tail outputfile' works on the command line, and the output (last line -0) can be redirected to tail.txt like so: tail -0 outputfile > tail.txt the redirection doesn't seem to work when run from Mathematica. I.e. using Run["tail -0 outputfile > tail.txt]; Import["tail.txt] I also tried your version: ReadList["!tail outputfile", Expression] but no luck with that either. Any suggestions, anyone? On Jan 31, 8:23 am, Heike Gramberg <heike.gramb... at gmail.com> wrote: > If you are working on unix/linux/os x and your output file contains one expression per line, you could use something like > > ReadList["!tail outputfile", Expression] > > where outputfile is the name of your output file. This basically calls the external command tail which is a program on unix/linux that displays the last few lines of a file. > > I'm not familiar with windows so I don't what the windows equivalent of tail would be. > > Heike. > > On 30 Jan 2011, at 00:43, Ramiro wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I wrote a program that generates a lot of Mathematica output. > > > Now I need to restart it using the very last expression of such output > > as the new input. However, I can't find a way to only read the last > > expression in a file, something like a Read that would start at the > > end. It would be too time consuming and perhaps not enough memory in > > my computer to read the entire file. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Thanks, > > Ramiro- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -