how to read the last line of a huge file???

[kost BebiX]

26.01.2011, 12:59, "Xavier Heruacles" <xheruacles at gmail.com>:
> I have do some log processing which is usually huge. The length of each line is variable. How can I get the last line?? Don't tell me to use readlines or something like linecache... --
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Well, it's very simple. Don't store the whole log in one file. Create new one and archive the old one every night. You will also get a lot of free space this way.
Or store it in some MongoDB's capped collection. It's fast and queryable (if you need).
Good luck!

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