Watch the folder redirect log live

23 Aug 2011

If you’ve enabled the folder redirect log, you can watch it on a remote computer using the tail command and SED.exe.

Currently, the fdeploy.log (for XP anyways) stores the log as a binary file with a NULL character between each character. To clean up this output you can pipe tail.exe into sed and tell sed to delete the NULL characters…

To:

The command to watch it is now:

tail -f \\gkwngq1\c$\WINDOWS\Debug\UserMode\fdeploy.log | sed "s/\x00//g"

Cool.