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I’ve searched for an answer for quite a while, and haven’t found anything that works correctly.
I have log files, some reaching 100MB in size, around 140,000 lines of text.
With PHP, I am trying to get the last 500 lines of the file.
How would I get the 500 lines? With most functions, the file is read into memory, and that isn’t a plausible case for this matter. I would preferably stay away from executing system commands.
If you are on a ‘nix machine, you should be able to use shell escaping and the tool ‘tail’.
It’s been a while, but something like this:
notice the use of tick marks, which executes the string in BASH or similar and returns the results.