COLORTAIL(1)

👑 COLORTAIL(1) — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the General Commands Manual page for colortail, and I'm about to explain it to you like we're texting at 2am. no cap, it's actually so useful.

✨ NAME ✨

colortail — a log colorizer that makes log checking <em>easier</em> 🎀 like, the whole point is that your logs stop looking like a wall of beige sadness.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

colortail [options][file...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options, then files, go off 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents briefly the colortail commands. brief, but make it iconic ✨

colortail is basically tail but with support for colors 🌈 and honestly? the glow up is real.

with the help of color config files you define what part of the output to print in which color. that's the whole magic trick, no smoke machine required 🧚

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows you a lil summary of the options, like a friendly lil tour guide 🫶
• -f, --follow — outputs appended data as the file grows. yes bestie it just keeps watching, main character energy, never leaves 👀
• -k, --config=file — --config=file1,file2,... color config files for the tail files. heads up tho: if there's only one config file it's global, otherwise it's one config file for each tail file. so like, one for everybody or one each, you pick 💖
• -n, --lines=N — output the last <em>N</em> lines, instead of last 10. yes, ten is the default, and yes you can change it ⭐
• -l — display without colors. literally the opposite of the point but okay, sometimes you need the plain version 🙈
• -q, --quiet, --silent — never output headers giving file names. shhh 🤫
• -v, --version — output version information and exit. quick lil flex then dip 👑

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

colortail was written by Joakim Andersson <ja@joakimandersson.se> Copyright (C) 2009

this manual page was written by Elías Alejandro Año Mendoza <ealmdz@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). periodt 💜

cute lil sign-off time 🫶 this page lives in the General Commands Manual and it's dated January 2, 2010. and that's COLORTAIL(1), love u, bye bestie 🦋✨