WinUtils - tail | 
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NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
tail [-fv?] [+/-[n]lines] file
DESCRIPTION
tail copies the named file to the standard output beginning at the designated place.
Coping begins at a point in the file indicated by the -/+n lines, + means the number of lines from the start of the file, - means from the end. If the value is not specified, then the number 10 is used.
OPERANDS
| -f | Follow. tail will not terminate after the line of the input file has been copied, but will enter an endless loop, wherein t sleeps for one second then attempts to read and copy further records from the input file. Thus it may be used to monitor the growth of a file that is being written by some other process. |
| +/-[n]lines | The number of lines. |
| file | The path of the input file. |
EXAMPLES
tail -f foobar
will print the last ten line of the file foobar followed by any lines that are appended after tail is started.
