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 <budikus...@gmail.com> wrote: > use wxHexEditor or Curses Hexedit > hit End to bring us to the tail > > On 8/22/20, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried to tail a large file (2.8GB) to get is last 10 lines. It runs >> very >> fast. >> >> How is this achieved? Does tail do it differently between a file >> (random disk access) and a pipe (sequential disk access)? Thanks. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Peng >> >> > -- Regards, Peng
