Tail -n 1000 in Java (Apache commons, etc)

Question

I'm wondering if util code already exists to implement some/all of *NIX tail. I'd like to copy the last n lines of some file/reader to another file/reader, etc.

Answer 1

This seems like a good bet: Tailer Library. This implementation is based on it, but isn't the same. Neither implement a lookback to get the last 100 lines though. :(