How can I tail a zipped file without reading its entire contents?

Question

I want to emulate the functionality of gzcat | tail -n.

This would be helpful for times when there are huge files (of a few GB\'s or so). Can I tail the last few li

Answer 1

If you have control over what goes into the file in the first place, if it's anything like a ZIP file you could store chunks of predetermined size with filenames in increasing numerical order and then just decompress the last chunk/file.