Java : Read last n lines of a HUGE file

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I found it the simplest way to do by using ReversedLinesFileReader from apache commons-io api.
This method will give you the line from bottom to top of a file and you can specify n_lines value to specify the number of line. 

import org.apache.commons.io.input.ReversedLinesFileReader;


File file = new File("D:\\file_name.xml");
int n_lines = 10;
int counter = 0; 
ReversedLinesFileReader object = new ReversedLinesFileReader(file);
while(counter < n_lines) {
    System.out.println(object.readLine());
    counter++;
}

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