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Re: How tail works on a large file?
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Peng Yu |
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Re: How tail works on a large file? |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:21:45 -0500 |
Do you mean that I need to run `hexedit the_large_file`. What is the
purpose of this? I don't quite understand.
On 8/22/20, Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> use wxHexEditor or Curses Hexedit
> hit End to bring us to the tail
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> On 8/22/20, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I tried to tail a large file (2.8GB) to get is last 10 lines. It runs
>> very
>> fast.
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>> How is this achieved? Does tail do it differently between a file
>> (random disk access) and a pipe (sequential disk access)? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>>
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Regards,
Peng