Possible to read just from a certain point in HTML document (logfile)
 

Hi

I am trying to find a way to read only the end of a txt file appended to by a webserver.

assume http://somesite.com/myfile.txt

data1
data2
..
data10

read full file

server adds data
Data x
Data y

I then want to continue from after data10 to minimize server load. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Hi,

possible with awk, see examples from here
or something like

I don't have direct access to that server. So what I need to make happen is to make the webserver only send me the data that is new.

Otherwise I might as well just get the whole file over and over again. But this is to minimize server load since the file is growing over the day.

for that you will need a PHP or some script to get the file from server and show you only the lines you want.

I don't know if there is anything like that already on the internet,
because I assume that every time you want data from file, the last lines change so the search condition also changes from previous search.

Post a sample file with data to get more help (you can use pastebin and post a link to that file here.