Why "Get-Content" is not refreshing contents live?

Question

I have a logfile and used the command Get-Content myLog.log –Wait to show the contents of this file, just like with the linux equivalent tail.

I noticed that the content is not updated live like I know it from tail. The content is only refreshed after a specific interval. How can I change the interval, I think I have to pass an argument for Wait so that it knows how long to wait?

Answer 1

The Get-Content cmdlet doesn't expose a property nor a function to set the refresh intervall. You probably have to do it yourself:

$linesPrinted = 0;

while ($true) 
{ 
    $content = Get-Content myLog.log
    $currentLineCount = $content | Measure-Object -Line | select -expand Lines

    if ($currentLineCount -gt $linesPrinted)
    {
        $content[$linesPrinted .. $currentLineCount]
        $linesPrinted = $currentLineCount
    }


    Sleep -Milliseconds 100 
}