Dave Watts wrote: > > I use tail for these sorts of things. While tail is a common Unix utility, > there are free versions for Windows.
HOORAY! Tail and grep are absolute essentials IMO. Today, for example, I was doing a BULK INSERT of 3.3 million rows into SQL Server. 2 rows failed... one of which was line 336525 or something like that. "tail +336525 TB902.TXT | more" showed me that line contained someone whose birthday was in 867 AD. Not valid data for a "datetime" data type in SQL 2000. Also, "tail -1 application.log" is handy for viewing the last line in the application log file. I think tail is actually included with Windows Server 2003... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/tail.asp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194559 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
