Unix tail equivalent command in Windows Powershell

Question

I have to look at the last few lines of a large file (typical size is 500MB-2GB). I am looking for a equivalent of Unix command tail for Windows Powershell. A f

Answer 1

Just some additions to previous answers. There are aliases defined for Get-Content, for example if you are used to UNIX you might like cat, and there are also type and gc. So instead of

Get-Content -Path  -Wait -Tail 10

you can write

# Print whole file and wait for appended lines and print them
cat  -Wait
# Print last 10 lines and wait for appended lines and print them
cat  -Tail 10 -Wait