tail -n 的简易实现版

从《The.C.Programming.Language.2Nd.Ed 》5.13题出发 。Exercise 5-13. Write the program tail, which prints the last n lines of its input. By default, n is set to 10, let us say, but it can be changed by an optional argument so that tail -n prints the last n lines. The program should behave rationally no matter how unreasonable the input or the value of n. Write the program so it makes the best use of available storage; lines should be stored as in the sorting program of Section 5.6 , not in a two-dimensional array of fixed size.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

#define MAXLINES 10000
#define MAXLENGTH 1000

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
    int tail_n = 10;
    char * inputs[MAXLINES];
    char line[MAXLENGTH];

    if( argc > 1 && argv[1] != NULL )
    {
        if( argv[1][0] == '-' )
        {
            tail_n = atoi( &argv[1][1] );
        }
    }

    int i = 0;
    while(fgets(line, MAXLENGTH, stdin) != NULL && i < MAXLINES)
    {
        char * tmp = (char *)malloc( strlen(line) * sizeof(char) + 1 );
        strcpy(tmp, line);
        inputs[i] = tmp;
        i++;
    }

    int j = 0;
    for(; j<i-(tail_n+1); j++){}
    for(; j<i; j++){ printf("%s",inputs[j]);free(inputs[j]); }
    return 0;
}