Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format)

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 you write:
> Hi how can I efficiently extract the last email in a huge mbox email file?
>
> Kind regards,
If your version of tail has the -r option as most do, this will work:

tail -r mailbox | sed -e '/^From /q' | tail -r


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