Wednesday, June 8, 2011

tail -f for windows

Have often found people using TextPad, Notepad++ or EditPlus to view the running logs on Windows Platform. The approach lurks, as the application drives the page refresh in a user interactive manner. The user has to confirm everytime to reload the file when it gets updated.

There is a project at sourceforge called Tail for Win32 that comes to our rescue.

It's a win32 application and has a nice UI to load the log files. It just mimics the unix command: tail -f <logfile> [a non-user-interactive view of running logs]

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