Tail logs with a simple one-line Powershell script

Powershell

With just a small one-liner you can listen to logs in Powershell:

> Get-Content .\application_2017-05-30.log -Wait -Tail 0

application_2017-05-30.log is the name of the log file. -Wait -Tail 0 means “Wait for more and print out the last 0 lines”. So basically it won’t write out any old lines in the log but only new ones.

With a simple regex we can filter out what particularly lines we want to write out. In the snippet below we write out all (new) lines containing UserRepository in the line:

> Get-Content .\application_2017-05-30.log -Wait -Tail 0 | Select-String '.+(UserRepository).+'

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Oskar Klintrot