Is there a tail that works through a network resource?

Question

I need a tail utility that runs under windows and can control a file on a network share. The ones I tried worked fine locally, but not SMB.

Answer 1

The GNU utilities for Win32 have their own tail.exe file, which I just checked using the SMB path:

tail -f \\server\path\to\file

Everything seemed to be fine. I updated fileusing Notepad and tail reported this in my cmd window.

Answer 2

Powershell's get-content can also do the equivalent if you want to go this route. Example

Answer 3

, , :

FileSystemWatcher ( , UNC-) .

on github: https://github.com/danbyrne84/multitail

http://www.danielbyrne.net/projects/multitail

Hope this helps