finding last match in a file

[Keith O'Connell]

>>>>> "Dag" == Dag  <dag at animagicnet.no> writes:

    Dag> The problem is that greping through large files with a fairly
    Dag> complex regexp is taking far too long, esp. when I know that
    Dag> the last occurance is almost always within the last 100
    Dag> lines.


        How about tail -n 100 <filename>?

Keith
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