On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:01:15 +1200
Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like to have a ' tail -f /var/log/everything/current' running on a
> spare terminal, but what would be *really* neat is if I had a program
> that would re-colour the output so that messages of interest to me
> would stand out.
> It'd be pretty easy to roll my own, all I want is something that I can
> define certain colours for messages from certain programs, or some
> such.
> Something like 'tail -f /var/log/everything/current | recolour.sh'
> Does anyone know of any tools that already do this? I'm lazy, and it
> seems to me that this kind of thing must have been done a million
> times in the past, but a cursury search on Google turned up nothing.
Yes, you are lazy ;-)
$ emerge -s tail
...snip...
* app-misc/colortail
Latest version available: 0.3.0-r3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 53 kB
Homepage: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html
Description: Colortail custom colors your log files and works like
tail
...snip...
Einar
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