Free Linux like “tail -f” for Windows [closed]
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24-02-2021 - |
Question
Is there alternative to hoo-wintail (costs $49.95) for Windows, which can color specific lines according to pattern in monitored file.
Thanks
Solution
I found two options:
Neither of them uses Cygwin. BareTail apparently has an annoying startup screen. Tail for Win32 is completely free, and open source.
OTHER TIPS
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.
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
- libiconv2.dll
- 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.
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
I can recommend LogExpert an other alternatives
Free version of Kiwi Syslog Viewer will do the job.
It has a tail function, and will open very large files quickly and easily.