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tail -f
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Works in any Unix environment.
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Colorized output
Logfiles can be displayed colorized. Colorization can be set via regular expressions. There's also a selection of pre-defined color schemes available to choose from.
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Can monitor each logfile in a separate window
MultiTail can create a windows for each monitored logfile (via ncurses). Terminal can be split horizontally and vertically as needed.
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Includes basic statistics
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Can merge inputs
MultiTail allows merging multiple logfiles and commands in a single window. To merge: multitail file1.log -I file2.log.
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Interactive interface
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Allows filtering lines
Through regular expressions certain lines can be filtered.
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Can monitor wildcards
MultiTail can be set up so that most recently updated file matching a wildcard will be monitored.
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Allows truncating long files with -S
less -S +F logfile.log
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