How can I tail a zipped file without reading its entire contents?

Question

I want to emulate the functionality of gzcat | tail -n.

This would be helpful for times when there are huge files (of a few GB\'s or so). Can I tail the last few li

Answer 1

BGZF is used to created index gzip compressed BAM files created by Samtools. These are randomly accessible.

http://samtools.sourceforge.net/