On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com> wrote:
such as when searching for ID3
tags in an MP3 file.

You could also use gnu 'tail' part of gnu textutils -I believe it's now called coreutils-, to get the last 'n'  bytes of a file, and there's your ID3 info...

FC