Need tail tool

[leejwen]

Hello guys,

Is there any tools in Windows (or VC) like UNIX "tail" to trace a file. Thank you!

[dafodil]

How about the tree command in dos?

[epots9]

How about the tree command in dos?

leejwen, did you try that? did it help you?

[leejwen]

I'm sorry, I didn't express verly clearly. 'tail' is a command in unix used to trace file content, by default it will print last few lines of the file. It will keep display as the lines added. So it's more like a file monitor, if you use 'tail -f filename'.

Thank you!

[WhiteRider]

I had a usefull BASH script for editing a config file for a server but the server went down for hardware upgrades and I installed the server on a Windows system as a temporary solution. In that script it relied on the tail command to monitor a log and I couldn't find any tool native to windows that could do it so I got cygwin. With this you can use lots of *nix commands. If this isn't practical you should investigate Python - I think I've seen a script written that can emulate the tail command.

Good luck.