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

Here is the working for this.

    private static void printLastNLines(String filePath, int n) {
    File file = new File(filePath);
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    try {
        RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(filePath, "r");
        long pos = file.length() - 1;
        randomAccessFile.seek(pos);

        for (long i = pos - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            randomAccessFile.seek(i);
            char c = (char) randomAccessFile.read();
            if (c == '\n') {
                n--;
                if (n == 0) {
                    break;
                }
            }
            builder.append(c);
        }
        builder.reverse();
        System.out.println(builder.toString());
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}