How to Get Tail Like Functionality on Windows with PowerShell

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ps2 Posted: 03-23-2013 3:51 PM

Linux power users and administrators have long used the tail utility to monitor log files, but did you know that you can do the same on Windows?

Traditionally tail has been used to view the bottom X number of lines from a log file. While Windows doesn’t have a standalone utility to do what tail does, we do have the Get-Content PowerShell cmdlet which happens to have a tail parameter.

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