Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:02 -0400, Richard Lee wrote:
>
>> Chas. Owens wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Richard Lee <rich.japh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>> snip
>>>
>>>
>>>> can this be optimized in anyway?
>>>> open (my $source, '-|', "tail -100000 /server/server.log")
>>>>
>>>> is this the best way to get large ****tion(well file itself is over
20
>>>> times) of the file into find handle?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> snip
>>>
>>> Depending on how you are processing data, you may find
>>> File::ReadBackwards* useful.
>>>
>>> * http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ReadBackwards/ReadBackwards.pm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> This looks very useful.
>>
>> Unfortunately however, the system I am on, I cannot install any modules
>> other than standard modules that already come with the perl.
>> But I will try this at my own system.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>
> Sadly, even ReadBackwards in no magic bullet. (And BTW, it should be
> ReadBackward.)
>
> It still has to go through the entire file and mark the offsets to the
> start of every line.
>
> The best way to do this is just to bite the bullet and do it.
>
>
>
There is no way to read say last 10 MB of the file or something? It's
very surprising why no such thing exists..
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