This article spotlights alternative tools to tail.
The software featured here is free and open source.
| tail alternatives | |
|---|---|
| ov | Feature rich terminal pager |
| MultiTail | Monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows |
| less | A popular pager |
| colortail | Like the tail command line utility but with colors |
| inotail | inotify-based implementation of tail |
| ptail | A dynamic tail |
| retail | The tail command with regular expressions |
| btail | Interactive file tail viewer |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to tail? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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try to add screenshots of the alternatives that show at least some features.
We already show the help output for them.