could not start tail command - windows

[msenturk]

termshark looks for the tail.exe at "c:\cygwin64\bin\tail.exe" via hardcoded way.

[gcla]

Yes, you are right :-/ It is possible to change the tail command that termshark uses - in the UserGuide at the link below, search for "tail-command"

https://github.com/gcla/termshark/blob/master/docs/UserGuide.md

I'm not sure what would be a good candidate outside of the cygwin one - when I looked into this, it seemed that there was little else that was up to date and not buggy. Some discussion here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/187587/a-windows-equivalent-of-the-unix-tail-command

If you find an alternative on windows, or have one in mind, please do let me know.

[gcla]

Hi - would you be willing to try an experimental termshark that removes the dependency on cygwin? It's in branch golangtail. Something like this should work for installing it (I ran this in a temporary new user env via adduser on Linux with go 1.12.1)

$ export GO111MODULE=on
$ git clone https://github.com/gcla/termshark
$ cd termshark
$ git checkout golangtail
$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go install ./...

then termshark.exe will be in ~/go/bin/windows_amd64/

To use the new built-in default tail, make sure that main.tail-command isn't configured in termshark.toml - on Windows that's in <USERPROFILE>\AppData\Roaming\termshark.toml

Thanks!