How to read lines from end of a file?

[Paul Jackson]

|> I want to read the lastlines from a file, one ?
|> by one, until I find what I'm looking for.

|> It seems like the reverse() function does what I want

I'd be tempted to reverse the last big (100 Kbytes?) chunk,
not the entire file.  If the file were huge, I might
rather risk missing the desired line than risk blowing
out my memory to the swap device.

All depends on what you're trying to do ...

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