[scala-io] efficient way to read only the last N lines of a big file

[Sawyer]

Hi,
I am able to do this in Java using RandomAccessFile , is there any better ways to handle this in  scala-incubator/scala-io?

Thanks!

Sawyer

[Jesse Eichar]

I don't have a clean way of doing this at the moment.  You can do it with a seekable because the long traversable obtained from a seekable is random access so you can perform seekable.bytes.get(file.size - 1) to get the last byte.  But this is clearly not clean and Seekable should provide a way to read the file back to front instead of front to back.  It would be very easy to implement a ReversableLongTraversable which has a reverse method on it.

Jesse