Shell Tips !

If you are an addict of the command line interface whateve the OS you use, you probably already had difficulties to administrate some Windows XP box remotely. Tips ! Get the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools on microsoft.com you could install lot of usefull tools and especially tail !

# display help

tail /?

# display last ten lines of a file

tail FILENAME

# display last thirty lines of a file

tail -30 FILENAME

# keep accessing file, displaying new lines as necessary.

tail -f FILENAME

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