[ale] Dealing with really big log files....

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> One more idea is to use dd with the seek and count parameters.


This is the only good idea so far. It's the only one that
doesn't involve reading the entire file up to the data of
interest, which is just... not a very smart thing to do,
when you have some idea where the data is, in a file
approximately the same size as the known universe.

-- JK

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