How to monitor a text file in realtime [closed]

Answer 1

Surprised no one has mentioned Trace32 (or Trace64). These are great (free) Microsoft utilities that give a nice GUI and highlight any errors, etc. It also has filtering and sounds like exactly what you need.

Answer 2

I use "tail -f" under cygwin.

Answer 3

@echo off

set LoggingFile=C:\foo.txt
set lineNr=0

:while1
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`more +%lineNr% %LoggingFile%`) DO (
    echo %%i
    set /a lineNr+=1
    REM Have an appropriate stop condition here by checking i
)
goto :while1

A command prompt way of doing it.

Answer 4

I did a tiny viewer by my own:

https://github.com/enexusde/Delphi/wiki/TinyLog

Answer 5

Here's a utility I wrote to do just that:

It uses a FileSystemWatcher to look for changes in log files within local folders or network shares (don't have to be mounted, just provide the UNC path) and appends the new content to the console.

on github: https://github.com/danbyrne84/multitail

http://www.danielbyrne.net/projects/multitail

Hope this helps

Answer 6

I use BareTail for doing this on Windows. It's free and has some nice features, such as tabs for tailing multiple files and configurable highlighting.