Tail

I’ve always missed have the tail -f command while working on windows machines, and something finally snapped yesterday. I’d seen some tail implementations for windows, but none of them were good enough, so I sat down and pounded out my own version and called it, drumroll please, tail.

Features:

  • GUI — no command line needed
  • Monitor many files at once
  • Customizable filters for flagging files – eg, only flag if error or warning is found
  • Visual and audio changes indicate flagged files
  • Pause/Restart monitoring, Mute/Unmute sounds, and change the number of lines in real time
  • Automatically saves your preferences when closed, including any files currently opened, and re-applies them when opened again
  • Free! Open sourced under the GPLv3
  • Platform independent — don’t worry linuxers, we won’t tell

Check out the page for it at Keeyai.com/projects/tail

Download it. Use it. Love it.

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