Tail for Win32 - A Windows version of the Unix 'tail -f'
Monitors a text file in real time. It can, for example, keep an eye out for certain keywords in a log file, and send an email if they occur. Very handy.
Via Sanjay.
Posted to Software by Simon Brunning at November 24, 2003 09:52 AMThere's also the "GNU utilities for Win32" - http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ - for those times when you need a GNU tool on Windows but don't want to install Cygwin.
Posted by: Jim Hughes on November 24, 2003 10:51 AMYeah, got those. Dead handy. But this version of tail does a whole bunch of stuff that the GNU utilities for Win32 version doesn't.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on November 24, 2003 01:35 PMI wrote a GNU .net version of Tail called GText Monitor. You can find it at http://www.bradgessler.com/?page_id=31.
Posted by: Brad Gessler on December 14, 2005 07:21 PM