TFS: How can I select one of my previous commit comments? - tfs

Often I'd like to use a previous commit comment (and edit e.g. just one word) for check-in.
I'm used to eclipse, where this feature works quite well.
Is it also available for TFS? I didn't find it yet (despite quick Web search), am I blind?
(I'm currently using TFS 2010 with VisualStudio 2010)
Best regards, Mayoares

I don't think there is anything in VS to help here (except cut and paste via change history).
However a little PowerShell with PSCX (PowerShell community Extensions) and the TFS PowerToys PowerShell snapin will do this, with the current folder set to the solution root:
(Get-TfsItemHistory . -recurse -stop 1).Comment | Set-Clipboard
will put the comment in the clipboard. Using the NuGet powershell session in TFS, this could likely be automated completely (left as exercise).

Not to take away from #Richard for providing the crux to the solution--I have already upvoted his answer--but there is just a bit more to say here.
The OP was just slightly ambiguous: the title leaned toward the capability of selecting some recent commit message while the body was more suggesting to retrieve the most recent commit message. Richard addressed the latter perfectly, but I think it is worth commenting on the former as well.
Consider this function, which uses the same Get-TfsItemHistory from TFS 2013 Power Tools that Richard mentioned:
function Get-TfsComment([string]$pattern = ".*", [string]$Path = ".")
{
Get-TfsItemHistory $Path -Recurse | ? { $_.Comment -match $pattern }
}
With that in place try:
# Get all comments
Get-TfsComment
# Get 10 latest comments
Get-TfsComment | Select -First 10
# Get all comments containing "bug" and "fix"
Get-TfsComment "bug.*fix"
# Get all comments in your tests folder containing "support"
Get-TfsComment -path .\tests -pattern support
The output of this function produces a collection of Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Changeset objects; the list of default properties it displays are typically all you need:
Changes Owner CreationDa Comment
etId te
------- ----- ---------- -------
1187 MYDOMAIN\fred 3/13/2014 Bug fixes for xyz...
1118 MYDOMAIN\wilma 3/7/2014 New features 139 and 448
1076 MYDOMAIN\barney 2/28/2014 Who remembers this...?
. . .
(Note that if you pipe the output to FormatTable -AutoSize that will take care of the poorly optimized line-wrap in the column headers.)

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How to find who last changed am file with perforce?

I have an idea but I'm not sure how it can be implemented. I use Jira/Perforce/Swarm, and I want to automatically include the name of the engineer who last changed a file. The name of the engineer should be included to the generated bugs/crashes in Jira.
Here is an example: Tod changed file TestFile.cpp. Tod's work has been merged into master branch. Assertion occurred and a bug in Jira was created with reference to the file.
How can we let the system know that Tod was the engineer who changed this file last?
Thank you in advance.
You can get this information from the p4 changes and/or p4 filelog commands:
C:\Perforce\test>p4 filelog TestFile.cpp
//stream/child_stream/TestFile.cpp
... #2 change 290 edit on 2022/03/29 by Tod#Samwise-dvcs-1509687817 (text) 'Tod's awesome change'
... #1 change 289 add on 2022/03/29 by Samwise#Samwise-dvcs-1509687817 (text) 'added file'
C:\Perforce\test>p4 changes -m1 TestFile.cpp
Change 290 on 2022/03/29 by Tod#Samwise-dvcs-1509687817 'Tod's awesome change'
If your automation is able to identify specific lines of code that introduced bugs, you might also find p4 annotate useful for tracing those lines of code to specific Perforce revisions/users:
C:\Perforce\test>p4 annotate -Tu TestFile.cpp
//stream/child_stream/TestFile.cpp#2 - edit change 290 (text)
1: Samwise 2022/03/29 asdfasdf
2: Tod 2022/03/29 "tod"

How to list all available jenkins plugins using command list with their short names

I want to list all available plugins names and their short names using command line option, so that I could automate required plugin installation through jenkins command line.
Kindly advise. Thanks
So far I tried to find answer on same however I got answer only for how to list installed plugins, not for all available plugins.
I've found this link http://updates.jenkins-ci.org/download/plugins/ which lists all plugins but with their short names only
You were so close! The LAYOUT is detailed here. The information is nearby for you to parse, hopefully I got it right.
http://updates.jenkins-ci.org/download/plugins/ is indeed the location of the plugins, with the actual plugin versions sitting inside each folder.
https://updates.jenkins.io/ is the root level. You will find the list of all plugins and details at plugin-versions.json.
update-center.js, update-center.json, and update-center.json.html contain actual update center metadata in JSON, JSONP, and HTML format respectively. You can parse the json to pull everything you are looking for. There are also lists for the documentation url and the release history, as well as the updates.
This is where it's nuanced; there's stable (ie:LTS) or latest (ie:weekly) and major releases of each. Each one has its own sublist, depending on minimum version and compatibility.
Plugin Selection
Since none of this tells you what the plugins actually do, the best thing is to choose your plugins at https://plugins.jenkins.io/. Clicking on any plugin (eg: mailer) reveals a header block with details:
Mailer 1.23
Minimum Jenkins requirement: 1.642.3
ID: mailer
The ID is the short name you are looking for. Go through and find the plugins you want to use and that's your list. Don't worry about the dependencies.
About Plugin Management
Even on a standalone instance, I use a modified script of Docker install_plugins.sh to generate the full list of plugins to install .
Update 2021: As part of GSOC 2019 and refined in GSOC 2020, a new and quite functional Plugin Installation Manager CLI Tool has been introduced to replace all non-GUI plugin mgmt tools, including inatall_plugins.sh. Achieves similar results.
You can examine the outputs or use the groovy script that follows to simplify your "must have" list. Also, as dependency updates happen all the time, I also generate a list of actual installed updates if I need to reapply identically to a different instance rather than from my curated list. My curated list is ~45 plugins, with over 115 getting installed.
eg: workflow-api includes [workflow-scm-step] which includes [git, subversion], so no need to specify git. But you want to know which version you got. Occasionally you may need to explicitly add a dependency to get the latest to avoid a defect, per JENKINS-54018, plugins which were split from Jenkins.
println "Jenkins Instance : " + Jenkins.getInstance().getComputer('').getHostName() + " - " + Jenkins.getInstance().getRootUrl()
println "Installed Plugins: "
println "=================="
Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins.sort(false) { a, b -> a.getShortName().toLowerCase() <=> b.getShortName().toLowerCase()}.each { plugin ->
println "${plugin.getShortName()}:${plugin.getVersion()} | ${plugin.getDisplayName()} "
}
println""
println "Plugins Dependency tree (...: dependencies; +++: dependants) :"
println "======================="
Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.plugins.sort(false) { a, b -> a.getShortName().toLowerCase() <=> b.getShortName().toLowerCase()}.each { plugin ->
println "${plugin.getShortName()}:${plugin.getVersion()} | ${plugin.getDisplayName()} "
println "+++ ${plugin.getDependants()}"
println "... ${plugin.getDependencies()}"
println ''
}
return

Error "Invalid Locales set !!" when trying to install sqldemo on Informix

I am extremely new to Informix and am having some trouble trying to get sqldemo installed.
Set up so far:
openSuse 12.1 (32 bit)
Informix Growth Edition 11.70 UC6
Informix SQL Developer 7.50 UC6
Informix RDS 7.50 UC6
Informix ID 7.50 UC6
After struggling a few days and a lot of reading of http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp, I managed to get Informix installed and On-line.
I also opted to install the demo database instance that comes with the installation.
I now and attempting to get started with Informix 4GL by Example.
I am trying to get the sqldemo database up. I don't know if it will replace the previous instance installed with Informix, but that is a different problem.
Right now as per the document, running the following should set up the DB:
sqldemo stores2t -log
I however get an error: "Invalid Locales set !!".
I have tried looking up this error and also in the documentation.
I have tried setting the CLIENT_LOCALE and DB_LOCALE in my .profile file.
For example:
export CLIENT_LOCALE=en_US.CP1252 and
export DB_LOCALE=en_US.819
This has not helped.
A push in the right direction, or perhaps some other documentation I could read that would explain things better would really be appreciated.
If any other information is required from me, please do not hesitate to ask.
Update 1
Thanks so much for the response.
A couple of things firstly that I have tried since your post.
Changed the the CLIENT_LOCALE and DB_LOCALE as you specified - Same error - So i removed it as you said it should not be set.
Fixed a problem in my PATH and made sure it has /usr/informix/bin - Same Error
INFORMIXDIR is /usr/informix
INFORMIXSERVER is ol_informix1170 (This is from the database that was installed with the informix install, don't know if this must be changed? and if so to what?)
Ran the script you mentioned, result :
INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix
INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1170
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ONCONFIG=onconfig
I noticed I had set the language to UK, which made the Locales en_gb instead if en_us, so tried changing that in my .profile, which did not help, so also tried changing the language to US and the locales to en_us, but this made no difference.
As for what you said about the sqldemo script and the already installed db, It is fine if that db is removed as this is just a test VB box for me to learn on.
Could the $INFORMIXSERVER set as ol_informix1170 be the problem?
Thank you once again for the help.
Neill
Update 2
Thanks again for the response.
A few things to note.
The dbenv results I posted is all that shows which i assume/presume (uh-oh) means that the other environment variables are not set. Which of the environment variables you posted are absolutely necessary for it to work?
As above, Where would I find the terminfo file, or does this need to be created?
As above, the SQLEXEC variable... where would I find sqlrm? I can somewhat remember from the documents I have read I think it should be $INFORMIXDIR/lib? but I only have an esql directory. Is this correct.
Barring that something in the first 3 above is not causing more problems, when trying your suggestion of DEMOPATH=en_us/0333 sqldemo stores2t -log I receive the following error:
Sorry, cannot read the mkstores3 program required to build the demonstration database. Check the /etc subdirectory of INFORMIXDIR (/usr/informix).
Checking /usr/informix/etc shows indeed that there is no mkstores3 file.
Attempting your further note of isqldemo, I get the following error:
/usr/informix/bin/isqldemo: line 58: /usr/informix/demo/sql/en_us/e01c/isqldemo: No such file or directory.
I guess this makes perfect sense as there is no e01c directory, just the 0333 directory.
Right now anything you can tell me would indeed be a consolation because my newb-ness to generally Linux and definately Informix is a big factor. Interesting that this bug has been around for so long. I guess way more experienced folk than I figured out how solve it on their own, or just never bothered with the sqldemo.
I guess that will teach me to read this:
INFORMIX-4GL by Example
Version 4.1
July 1991
Going to check now if any updated text exists, but would still appreciated more help in solving this problem. Do you think reverting to a previous snapshot before Informix was installed and not opting for the ol_informix1170 database to be included could be a possible solution? I wouldn't really see that it would be, but what do I know.
Many many thanks for your continued time and effort.
Regards,
Neill
Update 3
So I see indeed the document I was reading is ancient. I have found an updated one (2002) which uses a different script (dbaccessdemo7).
I tried running that, have run into an error, but tomorrow is another day.
For now I am going to mark this as solved because of the bug detected and resolved. I am not going to put more time and effort into sqldemo.
Thank you so much, and if I struggle with dbaccessdemo 7, I will post a new question.
Regards,
Neill
The sqldemo script won't create a new server; it may clobber your existing database (a single server may house multiple databases; indeed, there are 4 sys* databases created when a server is initialized) but it won't harm your server otherwise.
Probable cause of the error
The normal problem with invalid locales is that you've not set $INFORMIXDIR. You need $INFORMIXDIR set unless /usr/informix is (a symlink to) the correct location. You also need $INFORMIXSERVER set, and you usually need $INFORMIXDIR/bin on $PATH. Strictly, $INFORMIXSERVER is the only mandatory variable; in practice, you worry about the other two too.
The $INFORMIXDIR setting is used to locate the locale information (which is found in $INFORMIXDIR/gls) and the message files (which are found in $INFORMIXDIR/msg).
Note that CP1252 is a Windows code page. Normally on Unix, you'd either not set CLIENT_LOCALE or DB_LOCALE, or you could set them to:
export CLIENT_LOCALE=en_us.8859-1
export DB_LOCALE=en_us.8859-1
or you can choose another more appropriate (to you) locale. The 8859-15 locale includes the Euro symbol, for example, or the utf-8 locale dictates UTF-8 in the database. But, for initial debugging, stick with the 8859-1 locale, aka 819 or 0333 (all based on the IBM CCSID). If it doesn't work with 8859-1, then we have one set of problems; if it works with 8859-1 but not some other codeset or locale, then we have a different set of problems.
Follow-up info if the solution above fails
If that isn't the trouble, then I'll ask for some more details — notably, your Informix environment as reported by the dbenv script below:
: "#(#)$Id: dbenv.sh,v 2.11 2007/09/02 00:18:58 jleffler Exp $"
#
# Printout INFORMIX database environment
informix1="DB[^=]|DELIMIDENT=|SQL|ONCONFIG|TBCONFIG|INFOR"
informix2="ARC_|CLIENT_LOCALE=|GL_|GLS8BITSYS|CC8BITLEVEL|ESQL|FET_BUF_SIZE="
informix3="INF_ROLE_SEP=|NODEFDAC=|ONCONFIG|OPTCOMPIND|PDQ|PSORT"
informix4="PLCONFIG|SERVER_LOCALE|FGL|C4GL|NE_"
informix5="TCL_LIBRARY|TK_LIBRARY"
informix="$informix1|$informix2|$informix3|$informix4|$informix5"
system="COLLCHAR=|LANG=|LC_|LD_LIBRARY_PATH(_64)?=|PATH=|SHLIB_PATH="
jlss="IXD(32|64)?="
env |
egrep "^($informix|$system|$jlss)" |
sort
It's an old script; that's why the shebang is missing.
Second set of diagnosis
I was hoping for the complete output of the dbenv script; it is surprising how often something shows up. However, given what you've said, it is likely to be OK.
The INFORMIXSERVER setting sounds fine.
I'm struck by the LANG=en_US.UTF-8 setting; Informix does pay attention to $LANG and the $LC_* variables (that's why dbenv prints those out). That may be a factor in the problem. However, I would have expected CLIENT_LOCALE and SERVER_LOCALE to deal with that if it was the problem. Also, on my Mac, I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and yet I can connect to (8859-1) databases OK.
This is beginning to look like an install problem...or sqldemo problem...
I transitioned from a Mac to a RHEL 5 (archaic) x86/64 machine, and tried running sqldemo over there:
$ dbenv
DBDATE=Y4MD-
DBEDIT=vim
INFORMIXDIR=/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4
INFORMIXSERVER=toru_31
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/etc/sqlhosts
INFORMIXTERM=terminfo
IXD64=/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4
IXD=/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4
IXH=/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/etc/sqlhosts
IXO=/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/etc/onconfig.toru_31
IXS=toru_31
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:/usr/lib64:/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4/lib:/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4/lib/tools:/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4/lib/esql:/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/lib:/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/lib/esql:/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/lib/cli
ONCONFIG=onconfig.toru_31
PATH=/work4/informix/tools-7.50.FC4/bin:.:/work4/jleffler/bin:/u/jleffler/bin:/work4/informix/ids-11.70.FC4/bin:/u/jleffler/linux/x86_64/bin:/work4/informix/11.70.FC1:/usr/atria/bin:/work4/jleffler/perl/v5.12.1/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/atria_release/cm_dist/vobs/imitools/bin:/opt/rational/clearcase/bin:/opt/rational/clearquest/bin
SQLCMDLOG=/work4/jleffler/.sqlcmdlog
SQLEXEC=sqlrm
TERMINFO=/work4/jleffler/terminfo
TERM=xterm-color
$ sqldemo st2 -log
Invalid Locales set !!
$
Oh yeah? No; my locales are fine, thank you!
Well, so be it...I can reproduce your problem! That's step 1. Step 2 is to look at the expletive deleted script.
PRODUCT=sql
DEMOFILE=sqldemo
DEFLANG=en_US.8859-1
INFORMIXDIR=${INFORMIXDIR:=/usr/informix}
INFENV=$INFORMIXDIR/bin/infenv
CONVLOC=$INFORMIXDIR/bin/convloc
if [ $# -gt 0 -a "X$1" = "X-e" ] ; then
LOCALE=$DEFLANG # -e means en_US.8859-1 required
shift
else
LOCALE=`$INFENV DBLANG` # get DBLANG value
if [ "x${LOCALE}" = "x" ]; then
LOCALE=`$INFENV CLIENT_LOCALE` # try CLIENT_LOCALE instead
if [ "x${LOCALE}" = "x" ]; then
LOCALE=`$INFENV DB_LOCALE` # finally default to DB_LOCALE
fi
fi
fi
if [ "x${LOCALE}" = "x" ]; then
LOCALE=$DEFLANG # finally default to DB_LOCALE
fi
export LOCALE
if [ "x${DEMOPATH}" = "x" ]; then
echo "Invalid Locales set !!"
else
exec $INFORMIXDIR/demo/$PRODUCT/$DEMOPATH/$DEMOFILE $*
fi
exit $?
Note that test for ${DEMOPATH}; note that DEMOPATH is not set in the script. So, we've got to get it set. What to? Well, ls $INFORMIXDIR/demo/sql shows that there are various locale-specific sub-directories (en_us,
ja_jp,
ko_kr,
th_th,
zh_cn,
zh_tw) and under the en_us directory there's 0333 (only).
Please run:
DEMOPATH=en_us/0333 sqldemo stores2t -log
This more or less worked for me — I believe it would work for you. I have a slightly unusual setup in that I have just I4GL (p-code and c-code) and ISQL in the $INFORMIXDIR; the server is run out of a different directory. This means I don't have server utility programs like dbload (specifically) in $INFORMIXDIR/bin. When the sqldemo script tried to load the data with dbload, therefore, it failed for me. It would work for you because you have all the Informix software in a single directory. To add insult to injury, it runs the dbload program by explicit path, so I can't futz my PATH to make it available.
This should get you going. I have a bug to report...it is CQ idsdb00244894.
I'm sorry that you ran into so much trouble. You shouldn't have done so.

Share your conky tips / scripts / .conkyrc

I've just started tinkering with conky, and I'm hoping the StackOverflow crowd can share some of the cool things they've done with this tool.
Scripts and .conkyrc files specifically geared towards developers would be especially good to see. Some good examples of developer-centric functions would be repository-monitors or heck, even something that monitors StackOverflow.
Screenshots of what the functionality actually looks like would be appreciated as well.
I have an old AT modem that understands caller ID connected to my computer, so it keeps a log of incoming calls, and will match them to numbers in my address book. I have conky set to show the last few entries from the log.
(An incoming call also triggers a script that displays the call details on the screen using osd_cat, and pause the music player too.)
Other than that, just the usual weather forecast and system info summary.
This link just came up on reddit today, has some very well-done conky layouts: http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/05/07/8-beautiful-conky-desktop-monitor-setup/
I've just written a bash/shell script that uses grep to get today's TV shows from a txt file. Here's the format of the txt file:
Monday:
Family Guy (2nd May)
Tuesday:
House
The Big Bang Theory (3rd May)
Wednesday:
The Bill
NCIS
NCIS LA (27th April)
Thursday:
South Park
Friday:
FlashForward
Saturday:
Sunday:
HIGNFY
Underbelly
Here is the shell script which was saved in ~/bin and made executable:
#!/bin/bash
MYDATE=$(date +%A)
grep -A10000 $MYDATE /path/to/to_watch/list.txt | grep -B10000 -m1 ^$
And here is the line to add to your .conkyrc file (below 'TEXT')
$color${execi 3600 tv_today}
I think the regex/grep stuff needs some work (it doesn't like crlf line breaks) but it works.
Hope this gives someone some ideas of cool stuff to do with Conky...
Edit 2010-05-02:
Thanks to user tiftik for this more elegant awk/regex replacement for the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
awk '/^'`date +%A`':$/,/^$/ {if ($0~/[^:]$/) print $0}' /path/to/to_watch/list.txt

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For debugging purposes in a somewhat closed system, I have to output text to a file.
Does anyone know of a tool that runs on windows (console based or not) that detects changes to a file and outputs them in real-time?
I like tools that will perform more than one task, Notepad++ is a great notepad replacement and has a Document Monitor plugin (installs with standard msi) that works great. It also is portable so you can have it on a thumb drive for use anywhere.
For a command line option, PowerShell (which is really a new command line) has a great feature already mentioned.
Get-Content someFile.txt -wait
But you can also filter at the command line using a regular expression
Get-Content web.log -wait | where { $_ -match "ERROR" }
Tail for Win32
Apache Chainsaw - used this with log4net logs, may require file to be in a certain format
When using Windows PowerShell you can do the following:
Get-Content someFile.txt -wait
I use "tail -f" under cygwin.
I use BareTail for doing this on Windows. It's free and has some nice features, such as tabs for tailing multiple files and configurable highlighting.
Tail is the best answer so far.
If you don't use Windows, you probably already have tail.
If you do use Windows, you can get a whole slew of Unix command line tools from here. Unzip them and put them somewhere in your PATH.
Then just do this at the command prompt from the same folder your log file is in:
tail -n 50 -f whatever.log
This will show you the last 50 lines of the file and will update as the file updates.
You can combine grep with tail with great results - something like this:
tail -n 50 -f whatever.log | grep Error
gives you just lines with "Error" in it.
Good luck!
FileSystemWatcher works a treat, although you do have to be a little careful about duplicate events firing - 1st link from Google - but bearing that in mind can produce great results.
Late answer, though might be helpful for someone -- LOGEXPERT seems to be interesting tail utility for windows.
Try SMSTrace from Microsoft (now called CMTrace, and directly available in the Start Menu on some versions of Windows)
Its a brilliant GUI tool that monitors updates to any text file in real time, even if its locked for writing by another file.
Don't be fooled by the description, its capable of monitoring any file, including .txt, .log or .csv.
Its ability to monitor locked files is extremely useful, and is one of the reasons why this utility shines.
One of the nicest features is line coloring. If it sees the word "ERROR", the line becomes red. If it sees the word "WARN", the line becomes yellow. This makes the logs a lot easier to follow.
I have used FileSystemWatcher for monitoring of text files for a component I recently built. There may be better options (I never found anything in my limited research) but that seemed to do the trick nicely :)
Crap, my bad, you're actually after a tool to do it all for you..
Well if you get unlucky and want to roll your own ;)
Yor can use the FileSystemWatcher in System.Diagnostics.
From MSDN:
public class Watcher
{
public static void Main()
{
Run();
}
[PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name="FullTrust")]
public static void Run()
{
string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
// If a directory is not specified, exit program.
if(args.Length != 2)
{
// Display the proper way to call the program.
Console.WriteLine("Usage: Watcher.exe (directory)");
return;
}
// Create a new FileSystemWatcher and set its properties.
FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
watcher.Path = args[1];
/* Watch for changes in LastAccess and LastWrite times, and
the renaming of files or directories. */
watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess | NotifyFilters.LastWrite
| NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName;
// Only watch text files.
watcher.Filter = "*.txt";
// Add event handlers.
watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(OnRenamed);
// Begin watching.
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
// Wait for the user to quit the program.
Console.WriteLine("Press \'q\' to quit the sample.");
while(Console.Read()!='q');
}
// Define the event handlers.
private static void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
// Specify what is done when a file is changed, created, or deleted.
Console.WriteLine("File: " + e.FullPath + " " + e.ChangeType);
}
private static void OnRenamed(object source, RenamedEventArgs e)
{
// Specify what is done when a file is renamed.
Console.WriteLine("File: {0} renamed to {1}", e.OldFullPath, e.FullPath);
}
}
You can also follow this link Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET
Snake Tail. It is a good option.
http://snakenest.com/snaketail/
Just a shameless plug to tail onto the answer, but I have a free web based app called Hacksaw used for viewing log4net files. I've put in an auto refresh options so you can give yourself near real time updates without having to refresh the browser all the time.
Yeah I've used both Tail for Win32 and tail on Cygwin. I've found both to be excellent, although I prefer Cygwin slightly as I'm able to tail files over the internet efficiently without crashes (Tail for Win32 has crashed on me in some instances).
So basically, I would use tail on Cygwin and redirect the output to a file on my local machine. I would then have this file open in Vim and reload (:e) it when required.
+1 for BareTail. I actually use BareTailPro, which provides real-time filtering on the tail with basic search strings or search strings using regex.
To make the list complete here's a link to the GNU WIN32 ports of many useful tools (amongst them is tail).
GNUWin32 CoreUtils
Surprised no one has mentioned Trace32 (or Trace64). These are great (free) Microsoft utilities that give a nice GUI and highlight any errors, etc. It also has filtering and sounds like exactly what you need.
Here's a utility I wrote to do just that:
It uses a FileSystemWatcher to look for changes in log files within local folders or network shares (don't have to be mounted, just provide the UNC path) and appends the new content to the console.
on github: https://github.com/danbyrne84/multitail
http://www.danielbyrne.net/projects/multitail
Hope this helps
#echo off
set LoggingFile=C:\foo.txt
set lineNr=0
:while1
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`more +%lineNr% %LoggingFile%`) DO (
echo %%i
set /a lineNr+=1
REM Have an appropriate stop condition here by checking i
)
goto :while1
A command prompt way of doing it.
FileMon is a free stand alone tool that can detect all kinds of file access. You can filter out any unwanted. It does not show you the data that has actually changed though.
I second "tail -f" in cygwin. I assume that Tail for Win32 will accomplish the same thing.
Tail for Win32
I did a tiny viewer by my own:
https://github.com/enexusde/Delphi/wiki/TinyLog

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