[ale] Viewing huge log files efficiently

[Geoffrey]

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)

I don't think that will work.  tail will be expecting a file name, not a 
bunch of data.  I think you're pretty much stuck with:

zcat out.gz|tail -1000


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