BareTail
BareTail is a real-time log file monitoring tool.
Features Real-time file viewing
- Optimised real-time viewing engine
- View files of any size (> 2GB)
- Scroll to any point in the whole file instantly
- View files over a network
- Configurable line wrapping
- Configurable TAB expansion
- Configurable font, including spacing and offset to maximise use of screen space Follow tail mode
- View the end of a growing file in real time, no matter how fast the file grows
- Like "tail -f" on Unix systems, but with many more features Tail multiple files
- Simultaneously monitor multiple files for changes using tabs
- Visual indication on each tab of file status and changes
- Tabs may be positioned on any side of the window and oriented horizontally or vertically Configurable highlighting
- Lines containing particular strings can be highlighted to help you notice important text
- Highlight colours are fully customisable
International character sets
- Unicode
- UTF-8
- ANSI
- ASCII Many file formats
- Windows / DOS text files (lines end in CR/LF pairs)
- Unix text files (lines end in LF)
- Microsoft IIS logfiles (and other files terminated with a string of nulls) Flexible configuration options and storage
- Many configurable user preferences
- Preferences can be saved to a file, the registry or not at all on exit
- Preferences are loaded from a file in the local directory, a file in the application directory or the registry (in that order)
- Preferences can be loaded and saved at any time by the user, and shared with other users Single small executable, no installer
- No installation needed, start using the tool immediately
- Small executable can be run from the network
- Easy to temporarily install and then completely remove
