I have many programs generating tons of logs in files. What freeware do you know, either for Windows or for multi-platforms (if they are in java for instance), able to tail (display the end of) those files ? A plus would be their capacity to display some line in a certain visual style depending on 'grep' criteria Quick update so far...
What is the one single best GUI program for tailing log files you've come across? ...
I'm writing a log file viewer for a web application and for that I want to paginate through the lines of the log file. The items in the file are line based with the newest item on the bottom. So I need a tail() method that can read n lines from the bottom and supports an offset. What I came up with looks like this: def tail(f, n, off...
I'm looking for the equivalent of the unix 'tail' command that will allow me to watch the output of a log file while it is being written to. ...
Anybody in the know of a viewer (or Notepad++ plugin) that can read txt files in a streaming way? I would like to see for example the last 10 lines of a txt file that gets appended continiously. ...
I would guess most people on this site are familiar with tail, if not - it provides a "follow" mode that as text is appended to the file tail will dump those characters out to the terminal. What I am looking for (and possibly to write myself if necessary) is a version of tail that works on binary files. Basically I have a wireless link ...
I want to be able to see how many lines were added to a file since the last quering without reading the whole file again. Something like : ptail my_file | fgrep "[ERROR]" | wc -l A solution in simple Perl would be prefered, since I don't have an easy access to a compiler. ...
I've looked this up a thousand times, and I always forget it, so, here for eternity: Solaris has a bit of an awkward syntax for tail. How do I do the equivalent of BSD's tail -nN? What I want are the last N lines from tail's input. ...
Say I have a file with any number of lines, say, 125. I want to get all the lines except the first n, say, 20. So, I want lines 21-125. Is there a way to do this with with tail/head, or some other tool? ...
Hi All, I'm trying to write a (sh -bourne shell) script that processes lines as they are written to a file. I'm attempting to do this by feeding the output of tail -f into a while read loop. This tactic seems to be proper based on my research in Google as well as this question dealing with a similar issue, but using bash. From what I...
I've been looking at some server logs using tail -f recently, and have thought that it'd be much easier to see some things if I could format the output. Really all I'm looking for is a way to perhaps colour certain words (determined by a regex), and perhaps remove certain words (again, determined by a regex). I know there's programs whi...
For all those who don't know what I am talking about, it's glTail from Fudgie. On my Mac at home, I have never been able to get glTail to work. I have gotten it to work on my work Mac. This is just a last resort, as the past 2 days have been nothing but seems like wasted time. I have the same libraries installed: Ruby 1.8.6, Gem 1.3.1,...
I'm wondering what techniques and/or library to use to implement the functionality of the linux command "tail -f ". I'm essentially looking for a drop in add-on/replacement for java.io.FileReader. Client code could look something like this: TailFileReader lft = new TailFileReader("application.log"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedRea...
I am trying to find a good way to tail a file on a remote host. This is on an internal network of Linux machines. The requirements are: Must be well behaved (no extra process laying around, or continuing output) Cannot require someone's pet Perl module. Can be invoked through Perl. If possible, doesn't require a custom built script o...
How to let a label show multi-line strings? e.g. The given string is @"HelloA\nHelloB\nHelloC\n". How to show it like: @"HelloA" @"HelloB" @"HelloC" ...
I want to add some tail marks to several strings. Are there any marks like '\n' on iPhone? ...
I want to tail multiple files (and follow them) in CentOS, I've tried this: tail -f file1 file2 file3 but the output is very unfriendly I've also had a look at multitail but can't find a CentOS version. What other choices do I have? ...
I'm wondering if util code already exists to implement some/all of *NIX tail. I'd like to copy the last n lines of some file/reader to another file/reader, etc. ...
I need to wrap the Unix command "tail -f" in a BufferedInputStream. I don't want to simulate or mimic tail as stated by this question. Rather, I want to use tail, waiting for it to give me a new line. ...
I am working on adding some nagios alerts to our system -- some of which will monitoring the rate of certain events hitting the nginx/apache logs (or parsing values from those logs.) The way I've approached the problem so far is with a simple shell script tail -f'ing the log for 25 seconds or so to a temporary file, killing the process, ...