A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command

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A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command

I'm looking for the equivalent of the Unix 'tail' command that will allow me to watch the output of a log file while it is being written to.

tail windows

4 years ago by Kajalsi45d

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**akshay1995** · Answer 1 · 2021-06-09T13:27:56

akshay1995

I'd suggest installing something like GNU Utilities for Win32. It has most favourites, including tail.

4 years ago

**pankajshivnani123** · Answer 2 · 2021-06-14T12:22:56

If you use PowerShell then this works:



Get-Content filenamehere -Wait -Tail 30

PowerShell 3 introduces a -Tail parameter to include only the last x lines

**kshitijrana14** · Answer 3 · 2021-06-16T04:53:01

kshitijrana14

With Windows PowerShell you can use:

Get-Content <file> -Wait

4 years ago

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A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command

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