As an Unix administrator you easily get used to some standard tools that are available in most of the distributions.

One of them is “tail” mostly used with the “-f” option. The “-f” allows you to follow the data as it’s being appended to a file – most commonly used to view log files.

Unfortunately when you type “type -f” in the default Windows command interpretor (cmd.exe) you won’t come far…

Fortunately there’s a way to do it using PowerShell.

This will show you the whole content of the file and display any new data that is being appended to the file.