Re: [Pharo-users] Reading the last n lines from a file without using lots of memory

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:50:11PM +0200, phil@highoctane.be wrote:

Thanks.

But this would give me the 200 last chars. I am interested in the 200 last lines.

Now, I did this:

command := 'tac ', file fullName, ' | head -200'. ^ (PipeableOSProcess command: command) output.

which did the trick but isn't portable at all (Linux here).

<OT> Don't forget to close the pipes on that PipeableOSProcess when you are done using it :-) </OT> Dave