Posted by Peter van Schie on 07/14/05 00:53

Kasper Johansen wrote:
>
> As a workaround I have used this line of code:
>
> popen("cat /filenpathanddir", "r");
>
>
> My problem is that I want to jump around in the file (like fseek()), and I
> havent figured out how to do this while using popen() (and "cat"). I only
> have to read the last 5 mb of total 2,4 gb.
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of how to solve this problem?
>

Hi Kasper,

Instead of using cat, you could use tail if you only need the last xx mb
of the file:

popen("tail --bytes=5120 /fileenpathanddir", "r");

HTH.

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