Windows XP equivalent of "tail -f"?
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00:00 Windows Xp Equivalent Of &Quot;Tail -F&Quot;?
00:16 Answer 1 Score 3
00:26 Answer 2 Score 5
00:38 Accepted Answer Score 18
00:52 Answer 4 Score 7
01:05 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 18
Using Windows Powershell, you can use Get-Content < filename > -wait
There's also a discussion of a Windows Server 2003 tools package that has a tail program which supports -f
ANSWER 2
Score 7
I have had good luck with http://sourceforge.net/projects/tailforwin32/. It has some nice options for fonts, colors and keyword highlighting. Feels lightweight and fast to me.
ANSWER 3
Score 5
Just use the tail program from the cygwin project. this is "just" a ported UN*X tail command.
ANSWER 4
Score 3
We currently use this http://www.baremetalsoft.com/wintail/