taila

Tail with pattern matching and filtering

This is a utility for tailing a text file similar to tail -f but with a few extra features:

• Coloring lines that match substring of regular expression
• Filtering out lines that does not match any of the configured patterns

Basic usage

Usage: taila [options] [filename]

Options: -V, --version output the version number -a, --all Read file form the beginning -l, --filter Filter mode, do not display rows that does not match any pattern -h, --help output usage information

   tailor server.log
   tailor -a server.log

During tailoring it is possible to affect the operation of the tail process by pressing some command keys on the keyboard.

Commands during tailing:

• h - displays a list of commands
• i - displays a list of commands
• l - toggles the filering of that does not match any pattern
• b - (bump) inserts some new lines in the display
• r - reloads the file and starts tailing from the start. This is sometimes usefull when changing the filtering mode.

Configuration

For the command to work properly