Anybody in the know of a viewer (or Notepad++ plugin) that can read txt files in a streaming way? I would like to see for example the last 10 lines of a txt file that gets appended continiously.
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Tail for Win32 is a simple open-source program I've been using for a couple of years already.
Notepad++ can actually do it out of the box.
From within Notepad++: Settings > Preferences > MISC.
From there, you can check "Update silently" and "Scroll to the last line after update" in the group "File Status Auto-Detection"
The Notepad++ plugin you're looking for is Document Monitor. However, if you notice that Notepad++ freezes unpredictably, causing you to lose unsaved changes, then this plugin may be the culprit, as it is known to be unstable. See http://www.g-loaded.eu/2009/10/17/be-cautious-with-notepad/
Also look at other threads on tailing documents on Windows:
in other word... Best tail (log file visualization) freeware tool ? , no ?
The solution in that question was: Baretail
A great tool with tailing, highlighting, filtering, columnizing and a rudimentary Eclipse integration is Log Expert. Also has a SDK and is free for both non-commercial and commercial use.
You can tail log files using Apache's Chainsaw by configuring Chainsaw with a LogFilePatternReceiver. See the Welcome tab for an example configuration file.
In UNIX, tail -f . In Windows? Don't know. The Cygnus tools probably have the tail command as well.
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