[lug] Highlight logs

[Kyle Moore]

Thanks for the direction. It looks like multitail will do what I want. 
Here is an excerpt from their web page:

"It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular 
expressions), for faster recognition of what is important and what not."


Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:11:56 -0700, Kyle Moore <kmoore at mooreimages.com> wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know a way to highlight a certain string of text in your
>>terminal when you are tailing a log? For instance, I'm tailing my
>>maillog and want any "refused" entries to be red as they go by on the
>>screen. Or it could just as easily be I'm starting up JBoss with debug
>>logging and want to color certain strings of text to make them
>>noticeable in the large volume of data streaming past.
> 
> 
> I don't know of a utility for doing exactly that.  There is multitail
> which has some built-in grep abilities, but I think that acts more as
> a filter.
> 
> Wouldn't be too hard to write a little scriptlet in perl or python to
> do it, though.
> 
> Michael
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Kyle Moore