multitail for Windows cmd/powershell?

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Is there a program like multitail but for Windows cmd.exe or powershell (not GUI)?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

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It has a GUI but is the only "ready-to-use" tool I know of with multi-log file support: tail for Win32.

Features:

A few features of Tail:

Watch multiple files in realtime

Detect keyword matches, and highlight occurences

Send mail notifications on keyword matches by SMTP or MAPI

Plugin architecture allows you to write specialised handlers

Can process files of any size on all types of drive (local or networked)

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answered Nov 13 '09 at 19:09

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This seems like a GUI app: http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php – Sridhar Ratnakumar Jan 12 '10 at 06:19
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That's why I began my answer with: "It has a GUI but" – Gerd Klima Jan 12 '10 at 08:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Check this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426442/unix-tail-equivalent-command-in-windows-powershell, they talk about the GetFileTail function of PSCX, give it a try..

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answered Sep 20 '11 at 15:08

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 31 '14 at 03:48

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For log files i need to watch i do:

gc MyLogFile.log -Wait -Force | %{ do something with "$_" }

Works pretty nicely, it will do only one only do one file a time.

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multitail for Windows cmd/powershell?

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