Hello Monks,

I have compressed log files that I want to give users the option to search from the bottom of the file back. I found File::ReadBackwards which works well for uncompressed log files, but I can't figure out how to use it with my compressed log files. I pefer not to uncompress them first. Can someone show me the best way to do this? 
How I'm opening and processing compressed log files:

open (FILE, "zcat $filename |") or die && error($file);

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The portion that reads the file starting from the bottom:

# Run this portion if user chooses bottom
 
if ($pos =~ /\bbottom\b|\bb\b/){
 
  my $bw = File::ReadBackwards->new( $file ) 
                or die "can't read $file: $!\n" ;
 
  while( defined( $log_line = $bw->readline ) ) {
 
       print $log_line ;
 
}

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Thanks,
Dru

In reply to Using File::ReadBackwards with Compressed Files by Dru

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