How can I see the last lines of a large file in Windows?

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My servers hung, and after a restart it showed me that my hard drive was full (Windows Server 2008). I looked into the problem and it was a 189 GB Tomcat log file!

To find out the cause for the crash, seeing the last 100 lines of the file would be enough.

Is there a quick way to do this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '13 at 18:19

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Tail for Win32 is a GUI tool that can be used to monitor changes to a log file in real time.

answered Feb 07 '13 at 18:19

Dennis

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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You need to set up the log to rotate. As of right now, your log is just constantly appending to the end, which is causing it to grow constantly. There is a solution on the Stack Overflow website which you might want to try.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered Feb 07 '13 at 17:47

Keltari

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How can I see the last lines of a large file in Windows?

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