From: botp Date: 2008-09-05T21:25:24+09:00 Subject: Re: How do I quickly search the end of a huge text file? On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Brian Green wrote: > I just added > file.seek(-2000,IO::SEEK_END) > right after the line > fileSize = File.size(fileName) if i'm not mistaken, that would be fileSize = File.size(fileName) file.seek(-0.05*fileSize, IO::SEEK_END)