[sheflug] Multi Tail

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Just had some mail from someone who is working on a program called 
Multi tail.  You might like to examine this and tell me whether it's 
what it claims it is.  There have been other programs circulated 
which were not what they claimed they were.....


I would like to bring a GPL opensource program I wrote under attention
of the Sheffield Linux User Group. It is called 'MultiTail'.
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail 
program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your 
console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another 
file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it 
will automatically switch to that file.  That way you can, for 
example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of
2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while 
displaying the logfiles (through regular expressions), for faster 
recognition of what is important and what not. It can also filter 
lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive menus for 
editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. 
One can also have windows with the output of shell
scripts and other software. When viewing the output of external 
software,  MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like 
'watch' and such.

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

folkert van heusden



-- 
Richard

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