Java : Read last n lines of a HUGE file

Question

I want to read the last n lines of a very big file without reading the whole file into any buffer/memory area using Java.

I looked around the JDK APIs and Apache Com

Answer 1

The ReversedLinesFileReader can be found in the Apache Commons IO java library.

    int n_lines = 1000;
    ReversedLinesFileReader object = new ReversedLinesFileReader(new File(path));
    String result="";
    for(int i=0;i