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NAME

Data::Unixish::tail - Output the last items of data

VERSION

This document describes version 1.48 of Data::Unixish::tail (from Perl distribution Data-Unixish), released on 2014-12-10.

SYNOPSIS

In Perl:

 use Data::Unixish qw(lduxl);
 my @res;
 @res = lduxl(tail => (1..100)); # => (91..100)
 @res = lduxl([tail => {items=>3}], (1..100)); # => (98, 99, 100)

In command line:

 % seq 1 100 | dux tail --format=text-simple -n 5
 96
 97
 98
 99
 100

FUNCTIONS

tail(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Output the last items of data.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • in => array

    Input stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

  • items => int (default: 10)

    Number of items to output.

  • out => any

    Output stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

 (any)

SEE ALSO

tail(1)

Data::Unixish::head

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Unixish.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Data-Unixish.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Data-Unixish

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.