MultiTail
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the
original tail program. MultiTail started as an attempt to
provide a program which would display two log files in a split screen.
It was originally a clone of wtail.
The difference is that this program creates multiple windows
on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying
the logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which
are not.
The application is optimized for terminal-sessions through
slow links.
MultiTail 5.2.12
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.1MB
License
GNU GPL
Developer
Folkert van Heusden
Website
vanheusden.com/multitail
System Requirements
ncurses
Support
Sites:
Manual,
Mailing
List
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Reviews:
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Features include:
- A very powerful and versatile tool
- Monitor wildcards - if another file matching the
wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically
switch to that file. This allows monitoring a complete directory of
files
- Merge 2 or more log files
- Use colours while displaying the logfiles (using regular
expressions)
- Selections with regular expressions
- Selection on field-number/string offset
- Color schemes can be defined in a configurationfile. A
couple of examples have been included (Postfix,
Apache,
RSStail, Acctail,
WTMPtail, Squid, Asterisk,
Sendmail,
Mailscanner,
Samba,
Exim,
HTTPing,
TCPdump, ISC-DHCPD, Bind, Smartmontools, Kerberos, NTPd, nagtail,
WebSphere
(SystemErr), NNTPcache, Veritas Netbackup procmail,
Checkpoint Firewall-1, Netscape directory server (LDAP), log4j, ClamAV,
p0f, sysstat, portsentry, pppd, strace, Linux firewall (netfilter)
logging, Argus,
Snort,
Motion, IBM AIX errpt, MySQL error log, BOINC,
acpitail, netstat) - easily extensible
- Default color scheme for certain files can be selected in
the configurationfile (using regular expressions (NOT wildcards!))
- External scripts can be used to determine what colors
to use where in the logged lines
- Use of colors can be switched off
- Filtering of lines (through regular expressions)
- Interactive menus for editing regular expressions and
adding windows
- Mimicking the functionality of tools such as watch when
viewing the output of external software
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Last Updated Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 10:31 AM EDT
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