How do I display a text file content in CMD

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I want to display the content of a text file in a CMD window  In addition  I want to see the new lines that added to file  like tail -f command in Unix

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To do this  you can use Microsoft s more advanced command-line shell called  Windows PowerShell   It should come standard on the latest versions of Windows  but you can download it from Microsoft if you don t already have it installed   To get the last five lines in the text file simply read the file using Get-Content  then have Select-Object pick out the last five items lines for you   Get-Content c  scripts test txt   Select-Object -last 5   Source  Using the Get-Content Cmdlet

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If you want to display for example all  config  or  ini  file name and file content into one doc for user reference  and by this I mean user not knowing shell command i e  95  of them   you can try this   FORFILES  M  myFile ini  C  quot cmd  c echo File name    file  gt  gt   temp  stdout txt  amp  amp  type  path  gt  gt   temp  stdout txt  amp  amp  echo   gt  gt   temp  stdout txt quot    type  temp  stdout txt  Explanation    ForFiles   loop on a directory  and child  etc  each file meeting criteria  able to return the current file name being process   file  able to return the full path file being process   path    Type   Output the file content  Ps   The last pipe command is pointing the  temp  file and output the aggregate content   If you wish to copy paste in some documentation  just open the stdout txt file in textpad

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You can do that in some methods   One is the type command  type filename Another is the more command  more filename With more you can also do that  type filename   more  The last option is using a for for  f  usebackq delims     A in  filename  do  echo   A  This will go for each line and display it s content  This is an equivalent of the type command  but it s another method of reading the content   If you are asking what to use  use the more command as it will make a pause

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There is no built in option available with Windows  To constantly monitor logs you can use this free application BareTailPro

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tail -3 d  text file txt  tail -1 d  text file txt   I assume this was added to Windows cmd exe at some point

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If you want it to display the content of the file live  and update when the file is altered  just use this script    echo off  start cls type myfile txt goto start   That will repeat forever until you close the cmd window

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You can get the TAIL utility from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools   Here are additional details -- Tail command for Windows  CMD

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You can use the more command  For example   more filename txt   Take a look at GNU utilities for Win32 or download it

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I don t think there is a built-in function for that  xxxx txt  gt  con   This opens the files in the default text editor in windows     type xxxx txt   This displays the file in the current window  Maybe this has params you can use     There is a similar question here  CMD EXE batch script to display last 10 lines from a txt file So there is a  more  command to display a file from the given line  or you can use the GNU Utilities for Win32 what bryanph suggested in his link

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We can use the  type  command to see file contents in cmd   Example -  type abc txt   More information can be found HERE

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Using a single PowerShell command to retrieve the file ending   powershell -nologo   amp   Get-Content -Wait c  logFile log -Tail 10    It applies to PowerShell 3 0 and newer   Another option is to create a file called TAIL CMD with this code   powershell -nologo   amp   Get-Content -Wait  1 -Tail  2

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You can use the  more  command to see the content of the file   more filename txt

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