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.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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