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ImmortalStrawberry
ImmortalStrawberry

Reputation: 6091

Open rolling log file while being written to

Can anyone point me at an application to display/view a rolling log file as it is being written to?

I know there are apps out there, but googling just gives me questions about writing to/creating the logs. [This is Windows, not Unix]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2509

Answers (5)

Rusty Divine
Rusty Divine

Reputation: 3492

In Notepad++, there is a View -> Monitoring (tail -f) option that will continuously update the file for you.

Upvotes: 0

sgmoore
sgmoore

Reputation: 16067

Baretail.

There is a free version if you don't mind a small delay while it displays the splash screen or you can pay $25 to remove the delay or $35 for BaretailPro which also allows you to search the log files.

I use BaretailPro on my own machine and the free version of Baretail if I am working on a customer's computer.

Upvotes: 1

PurplePilot
PurplePilot

Reputation: 6612

tail -f /path/to/log

will show the last 10 or so lines of the log and then show you any new lines written to the log as they are written

Upvotes: 1

Stefan Egli
Stefan Egli

Reputation: 17018

Log4View can do that but it is commercial. Another idea would be to configure a UDP appender, then you can use log2console.

Upvotes: 0

Preet Sangha
Preet Sangha

Reputation: 65476

You could try the tail tool, with follow option.

Upvotes: 1

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