Is there a tail that works over network share?

Question

I need a tail utility that works under windows and can monitor file on a network share. The ones I tried worked fine locally but not over SMB.

Answer 1

GNU utilities for Win32 has a native tail.exe that I just tested using an SMB path:

tail -f \\server\path\to\file

It seemed to work fine. I updated file using Notepad and tail reported it in my cmd window.

Answer 2

Get-Content in Powershell can do the equivalent as well if you want to go that route. Example