Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
by misframer on Friday May 08, 2015 @11:45PM
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Good question. I'm not sure. You might want to seek to the end and move back. You probably shouldn't do it byte-by-byte directly from the file since that's very inefficient. As you can tell, this is already starting to get complicated! Maybe you could try mmaping the file so you could treat it as a []byte.
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Last year I was trying to write a Go routine that read a file backwards. I was amazed how unexpectedly difficult that proved to be.
In the end I settled for reading it from the start which worked 99.999% of the time and enabled me to finish the project to the tight deadline I had. But I've always meant to go back and "fix" that code at some point.