I’m writing a log file viewer for a web application and for that I want to paginate through the lines of the log file. The items in the file are line based with the newest item at the bottom. So I need a tail() method that can read n lines from the bottom and support … Read more
I have to look at the last few lines of a large file (typical size is 500MB-2GB). I am looking for a equivalent of Unix command tail for Windows Powershell. A few alternatives available on are, http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ and Get-Content [filename] | Select-Object -Last 10 For me, it is not allowed to use the first alternative, … Read more
Is that possible to use grep on a continuous stream? What I mean is sort of a tail -f <file> command, but with grep on the output in order to keep only the lines that interest me. I’ve tried tail -f <file> | grep pattern but it seems that grep can only be executed once … Read more
