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

zindex creates and queries an index on a compressed, line-based text file in a time- and space-efficient way.

https://github.com/mattgodbolt/zindex