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). I had a look at RemoteString as well. Phil On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com > wrote: > If you have a MultiByteFileStream you can do > > stream position: stream size - 200. > stream next: 200. > > Have a look at RemoteString, which is the class used to read the source > from the source and changes files (without loading all of them into memory) > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:15 PM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> > wrote: > >> I wonder how you guys would read the last n lines from a file in Pharo >> without reading through the whole thing. >> >> Is there code doing just that somewhere? >> >> The code I have is a shell script doing a 'tac file | tail -200 > >> /temp/something' >> >> I can always do that through OSProcess but wondered if there was >> something available. >> >> Reading through with a 200-entries FIFO circular buffer seems a bit silly >> to do. >> >> TIA >> Phil >> >> >> >
