Subject: Re: bug#51921: Anything like ztail

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:33:33 -0800

On 11/17/21 05:08, Peng Yu wrote:
> Is there a way to make ztail more efficient?

Not in general, no. The compressed file can't be decompressed from 
random locations.

There might be some options for doing what you're suggesting if 
--rsyncable is used during compression (which it usually isn't) and if 
someone would like to code up something for gzip (which would be 
nontrivial).