On 2012-11-24 08:59 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > colortail is not a full replacement for tail - namely, it precludes > pipe/|/stdin > > systemd-journalctl -f gives a non colorized output. > > Here's my failed attempt to fool colortail into accepting a bash file > descriptor in order to pipe journal through colortail: > > Refer: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
For programs which do not read standard input, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html is more interesting. See also the "Process Substitution" paragraph in the bash manpage. > SO, it comes to my mind, that there ought be a way to turn a bash file > descriptor, into a file name, to fool colortail in some other way. > Perhaps a /proc/$PID/fd/... or some such. Exactly that is what process substitution achieves. > Anyone know where to next, in the search for ultimate control over > colortail, taming it into submission to the will of systemd-journald? Probably "colortail -f <(systemd-journalctl -f)" will do the trick. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87624ve7k8....@turtle.gmx.de