mTail

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 04 December 2020
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NAME

mTail - continuous output of growing files (Unix like tail for Windows)

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/mTail [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

mTail [ filename ]

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

DESCRIPTION

When started thru right click and using the 'SendTo' Windows Explorer context menu the selected file is automatically loaded into mTail.

You should now see the mTAIL main window. Click on the button next to the "File:" label to select a file from the file system browser or enter a filename manually in the text combobox to the right of the button ( example: C:\temp\log.txt ).
Click the Start button (to the right of the window) and you should see the end of the text file you chose appear in the text display area. To stop tailing, just click the stop button.

You are not limited to one instance of mTAIL; you can launch any number of mTAIL windows to tail multiple file at the same time.

For a detailed documentation containing also screen shots to illustrate the usage, see: http://ophilipp.free.fr/soft/mTAIL.pdf or mtail.Help(1).

OPTIONS

-h: usage message.
-i: install the mTail command as menu point 'mTail' to the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.
-u: uninstall the mTail shortcut from the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.
-V: print program version.
filename: file to be displayed.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

always.

FILES

etc/mtail.cfg

configuration of mTail. This file is maintained by the command.

EXAMPLES

NOTES

mTail has been developed by Olivier Philipp <ophilipp@free.fr>.

Parts of this manual page are based on the documentation in http://ophilipp.free.fr/soft/mTAIL.pdf.

Please note and respect that the mTail program is only free, if it is not used in a commercial/business environment.

If used in a commercial/business environment a registration and a donation to the author Olivier Philipp is required.
See: http://www.mtail.com/ for registration information.

BUGS

AUTHOR

mTail was developed by by Olivier Philipp <ophilipp@free.fr> and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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