How to read last “n” lines of log file [duplicate]

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Your code will perform very poorly, since you aren’t allowing any caching to happen.
In addition, it will not work at all for Unicode.

I wrote the following implementation:

///<summary>Returns the end of a text reader.</summary>
///<param name="reader">The reader to read from.</param>
///<param name="lineCount">The number of lines to return.</param>
///<returns>The last lneCount lines from the reader.</returns>
public static string[] Tail(this TextReader reader, int lineCount) {
    var buffer = new List<string>(lineCount);
    string line;
    for (int i = 0; i < lineCount; i++) {
        line = reader.ReadLine();
        if (line == null) return buffer.ToArray();
        buffer.Add(line);
    }

    int lastLine = lineCount - 1;           //The index of the last line read from the buffer.  Everything > this index was read earlier than everything <= this indes

    while (null != (line = reader.ReadLine())) {
        lastLine++;
        if (lastLine == lineCount) lastLine = 0;
        buffer[lastLine] = line;
    }

    if (lastLine == lineCount - 1) return buffer.ToArray();
    var retVal = new string[lineCount];
    buffer.CopyTo(lastLine + 1, retVal, 0, lineCount - lastLine - 1);
    buffer.CopyTo(0, retVal, lineCount - lastLine - 1, lastLine + 1);
    return retVal;
}

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