Get some (portable!) Tail!

Sick of these things yet? ;)

One of these days I'm going to switch to Mono and check that out now that it supposedly has a Windows.Forms implementation. Someday.

For now, this is what I was doing this weekend when I wasn't visiting fam or fixing up my gameroom.

I present... Tail (shows you the last X lines in a file and/or monitors that file for changes). It's a lot like mTail but with a couple more features. Incidentally, mTail is a great program, so if this doesn't work for you I suggest you check it out (after letting me know how I can improve it of course ;) ).

1) Syntax highlighting
2) (hopefully) quicker opening big files
3) Not as complicated to use
4) Can run commands and view/tail the output.

If you've ever been in need to monitor a log file, this utility might come in handy. What brought the need to my attention, for example, was doing an XCOPY that kept failing, but the command line scrollback buffer cut off after about 50 lines or so. Even when redirecting the output it was a pain to close/reopen Notepad to get the updates constantly.

NOTE: I've come across a couple bugs already that I haven't been able to replicate so I'm hoping some of you would find this useful and help me out here. Expect this program to be a little buggy especially with the filters.

As usual, this is a portable utility but it includes the option of shell integration if you'd like.