On Mon 2018-Oct-29 16:28:12 +, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
Why is "show log messages | last 10" so slow with a large log file when I
can go to the shell and run "tail -10 /var/log/messages" much more
quickly?
Because it's an action that is done after the pipe rather than being the
action itself, so it's equivalent to `cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 10`
not directly to `tail -n 10 /var/log/messages`. It's a generic pipe action
that can be applied to any text output, e.g. the output of a regular
operational "show" command, but it's not a top-level command that does file
processing itself like `tail` can.
Maybe JUNOS can borrow the implementation of the "tail" command to make it
quicker.
They'd have to add a new top-level command or perhaps add a parameter to
the `file show` operation, I'd think. Probably doable, but not sure how
much traction the feature request would get.
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