[ale] Viewing huge log files efficiently

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:45:31PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> 
>>Ok, so now I have a 132 mb log file that's been gziped up.  What's the
>>most efficient way of getting, say, the last 1000 lines or so?  I thought
>>about:
>>
>>tail -1000 $(zcat out.gz)
>>
>>But that would first cat it out and consume, imo, massive amounts of
>>memory and swap.  What's the better way?
> 
> 
> I would use zless.  I haven't examined how efficient (memory- and
> swap-wise) it is, but less is generally pretty good about using memory.

Hmm, I'd suspect it's still going to have to decompress the whole thing, 
but that's based on my complete lack of knowledge as to how gzip works. :(

> 
> HTH,
> Jason

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