Quickie: Tail in Powershell
February 28th, 2014
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There is lots of great tools in Linux which are needed in Windows environment. One of the great tool from linux is “tail”. You can use it following way:
tail -f /var/log/mail.log
You will get end of the file and you see all content added to file on screen. You can view log files without need to reopen it. In Windows I use utility Trace32.exe. I was looking for some more native way to do it in Windows. There is a cmd-let Get-Content in Powershell which you can use following way:
Get-Content C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log -Wait -Tail 10
This tails only 10 lines from the end of the file and “waits” for new added lines. Switch “Tail” is accessible only in PowerShell 3 and higher.
Powershell is getting there,
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