Free Linux like "tail -f" for Windows

Question

Is there alternative to hoo-wintail (costs $49.95) for Windows, which can color specific lines according to pattern in monitored file.

Thanks

Answer 1

I found two options:

BareTail

Tail for Win32

Neither of them uses Cygwin. BareTail apparently has an annoying startup screen. Tail for Win32 is completely free, and open source.

Answer 2

multitail acts like tail -f on multiple files at a time, and it will color lines according to the file type. It's available in Windows as part of Cygwin, which will cost you $0.

Answer 3

Have you tried this?

"A Windows version of the UNIX 'tail' command. Includes features such as pager or SMTP notification of specific items found within the files being monitored"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tailforwin32/

HTH

Answer 4

Text utilities from gnuwin32 contains tail. This distribution is a zip file, you can only use tail.exe from this zip. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

It has a dependency. (dep is dependency,bin is actual distribution) Download both of them,extract. Copy

1. libiconv2.dll
2. libintl3.dll

from dep to same directory as tail.exe

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/coreutils/5.3.0/coreutils-5.3.0-dep.zip/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/coreutils/5.3.0/coreutils-5.3.0-bin.zip/download Then tail.exe works normally. But as you say in comments it gives error for "tail -f filename"

Interesting thing is: If you install using their setup package http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/coreutils.php. This error does not exist. But I saw same error when I was trying to use from zip distribution only.

Answer 5

Free version of Kiwi Syslog Viewer will do the job.

It has a tail function, and will open very large files quickly and easily.

Answer 6

I can recommend LogExpert an other alternatives