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Windows XP equivalent of "tail -f"?

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Mar 15, 202622047 views
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Is there way have windows XP show me updates to a log file as they happen? I'm thinking of something similar to in the linux realm.

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tail -f <file path>

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Using Windows Powershell, you can use Get-Content < filename > -wait There's also a discussion of a Windows Server 2003 tools package that has a tail program which supports

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