[ale] Viewing huge log files efficiently

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

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?

Thanks,
John



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