diff tailWrapper.pl @ 0:4d280e872e75 draft default tip

planemo upload for repository https://github.com/galaxyproject/tools-devteam/tree/master/tools/show_tail commit 5a4e0ca9992af3a6e5ed2b533f04bb82ce761e0b

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+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# a wrapper for tail for use in galaxy
+# lessWrapper.pl [filename] [# lines to show] [output]
+
+die "Check arguments" unless @ARGV == 3;
+die "Line number should be an integer\n" unless $ARGV[1]=~ m/^\d+$/;
+
+open (OUT, ">$ARGV[2]") or die "Cannot create $ARGV[2]:$!\n";
+open (TAIL, "tail -n $ARGV[1] $ARGV[0]|") or die "Cannot run tail:$!\n";
+while (<TAIL>) {
+    print OUT;
+}
+close OUT;
+close TAIL;
+