wintail
Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 25 March 2021
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NAME
WinTail - continuous output of growing files (Unix like tail for Windows)
SYNOPSIS
WA2LWinTools/bin/WinTail
[
-h
|
-i
|
-u
|
-V
]
wintail
[
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
WinTail.
For a detailed documentation containing also screen shots to
illustrate the usage, see:
http://www.tailforwindows.net/.
OPTIONS
-h
usage message.
- -i
-
install the
WinTail
command as menu point
'WinTail'
to the
'Send To'
context menu in
'Windows Explorer'.
- -u
-
uninstall the
WinTail
shortcut from the
'Send To'
context menu in
'Windows Explorer'.
- -V
-
print program version.
- filename...
-
file(s) to be displayed. The
filename
must be specified as absolute file name.
If the
WinTail
command is used from the command line, a quick way to use an
absolute file name is the usage of the
%cd%
environment variable which holds the current working directory:
[ H:\bin\myApplication\log\ ]
[ fred@ACME007 ][*wtshell*/cmd]: wintail %cd%\connect.log %cd%\debug.log
ENVIRONMENT
-
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
always.
FILES
- etc/WinTail.cfg
-
configuration of
WinTail.
This file is maintained by the command.
EXAMPLES
-
SEE ALSO
wintoolsintro(1),
config(1m),
mtail(1m),
http://www.tailforwindows.net/
NOTES
wintail
has been developed by Alberto Andreo <https://sourceforge.net/u/albertoandreo/profile/>.
Parts of this manual page are based on the documentation in
http://www.tailforwindows.net/.
BUGS
-
AUTHOR
wintail was developed by by Alberto Andreo <https://sourceforge.net/u/albertoandreo/profile/> and
integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020
Christian Walther
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.
This document was created by man2html
using the manual pages.
Time: 16:33:22 GMT, September 14, 2024