Re: opening a big file

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Richard Lee <rich.japh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>  can this be optimized in anyway?
>  open (my $source, '-|', "tail -100000 /server/server.log")
>
>  is this the best way to get large portion(well file itself is over 20
> times) of the file into find handle?
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Depending on how you are processing data, you may find
File::ReadBackwards* useful.

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ReadBackwards/ReadBackwards.pm

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