Multitail
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Multitail
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#2I use this a lot for monitoring my home server, really nice tool, especially the colors.
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#3Looks very useful, thanks for posting. I'll try using it instead of tail over the next few weeks.
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#4There's also something similar in Python
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#5I use this a lot for monitoring my home server, really nice tool, especially the colors.
It's a good tool indeed, but I hate how, when pressing enter to add a delimiter to a big file, the screen starts to flicker.
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#6The best feature of MultiTail is that allows following original file names by specifying '-f' flag.
Really useful for switching automatically to the needed file after log rotation.
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#7I use multitail's --mergeall flag daily for stuff like:
multitail --mergeall /var/log/apache2/*error.log
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#8The best feature of MultiTail is that allows following original file names by specifying '-f' flag. Really useful for switching automatically to the needed file after log rotation.
BSD/GNU tail do that with -F.
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#9Nothing related to multitail per-se, but: dark blue on black is unreadable. With a lighter blue might be ok, but please don't supply defaults like that.
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#10Good tool, have been using this for ages. Just don't look at the source code, at least a few years ago when I tried that to fix a bug I encountered, it gave me eye-cancer :P