tailf for windows

Question

I found tail2win but it is a paid product. Are there any good freeware or shareware out there?

Answer 1

If you're looking for a unix-style tail or tail -f then you can get the real thing from Cygwin. Cygwin is a port of many unix commands to Windows.

Answer 2

Try BareTail. There's a free version and a pay-for version. The free version shows an extra splash screen on startup, but is otherwise fully functional.

A small extract from the feature list:

• View the end of a growing file in real time, no matter how fast the file grows
• Like "tail -f" on Unix systems, but with many more features

Answer 3

http://infiero.com/tailxp/

Answer 4

Even on unix i quite like this perl module for tailing:

http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm

Mainly because it detects when a file is replaced, which normal tail doesnt cope with.

Answer 5

go to GNU win32 and download coreutils etc. you will find tail command. It free.