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Tail is a small program for following changes in log files. I’d like to see what people think of it, so please shoot me an email or leave a comment if you like it or hate it or if you have a question, comment, or suggestion.

Features:

• Graphical interface makes monitoring files extremely simple
• Monitor many files using tabs
• Can show multiple tabs at once
• Changed files show up with a flag and a noise
• Optionally mute sounds
• Optionally scan file changes and only flag on given keywords
• Variable number of lines to monitor
• Easily pause and resume monitoring
• Automatically saves your keyword, mute, and number of lines preferences
• Automatically re-opens files that were being monitored when Tail was closed

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Licensing

Tail is released under the GPLv3, meaning you can probably use it for
whatever you want. For licensing details, please read the GPLv3 at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Download

Get the latest version from SourceForge

Change Log

• 1.1.1 - Scrolling and Unicode (August 13, 2008)
  • added some code to make sure text area scrolls to the bottom every time - when tailing more lines than the window could show it wasn’t scrolling down. Thanks to Darren Foo for the bug report.
  • added some unicode support. Not my forte, but it works with my unicode test file
• 1.1.0
  • Removed error popup if a file throws an exception while tailing — it was very annoying and not very useful
  • Ran into major issues with read and seek not handling newlines the same way so I re-wrote the code that grabs the last X lines from the files. The lines should be accurate now (no extra little pieces of lines)
  • Fixed a bug where tail was re-loading images when it needed them so it would fail when the current os directory was inevitably changed (duh!)
  • Similarly fixed bug with save file

  (February 24, 2008)

• 1.0.0 - Initial Release (February 14, 2008)