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hmm first: seek is byte oriented not line oriented. As far as i understood it he needs one line at a time. This isnt much of a problem when you have a file with fixed length lines but since we are talking about a logfile this is doubtful (although possible). So while seek is probably the fastest way to move around a file i'm afraid you cant use it here.

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Re^3: print log file
by BerntB (Deacon) on Nov 30, 2006 at 06:52 UTC
    That is why the do_test routine skipped the first line it read. It said: 

      # Has moved somewhere in file. Skip partial line of log:
  <FILE>;

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    This just attempts to make the log traversal smaller, not perfect. (Wouldn't be so hard either, of course. But I'm out the door in a few minutes. :-)
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      ok i withdraw ;) still too early here should get more caffeine in the bloodstream before writing posts.

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