MULTITAIL(1)

💖 MULTITAIL(1) 💖

okay so this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for multiTail.pl, bestie. It is lowkey iconic for watching a whole pile of log files at once, and the log files can be written round. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

multiTail.pl — read multiple log files. The log files can be written round. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

        multiTail.pl [-a] [-d delay] [-p begin|end]
                [--print] [-t] [-o outFile [-m max] [-P]
                 [[-n noFiles] | [-s [-c compressprog]] ]
                ]
                [-C color=pattern [-C color=pattern ...]]
                [-g expression] files...

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a, --addName — add the filename to the output at the beginning of each line. name tags in the group chat, but for logs 💖
• -d, --delay — delay in sec. between checking the files (default = 5 sec). patience is a vibe ⏳
• -p, --position — read from begin or end of file (default = begin). start at the top or jump to the end, your call 🎀
• --print — print configuration read from configuration file or command line and stop. show the receipts, then dip 🫶
• -t, --withTime — with current time and date in the output. timestamps slay ⭐
• -o, --out — write output to file, specifically outFile from the synopsis. logs but make it a file 💾
• -m, --maxFilelen — maximal len of file written round (default = 1e6). keep it from getting too thicc 🦋
• -n, --noOfOldFiles — number of old files to store. hoard a few, but not forever 🌈
• -P, --withPID — write pid to log file (default is not). PID energy: optional but cute 👑
• -H, --withHostname — write hostname to log file (default is not). hostname cameo: also optional 🫶
• -l, --maxlines — maximal number of lines to read per --delay in one chunk from a log file (default = 1000). Setting this value to 0 means to read all lines immediately — no cap, all of them, immediately 😭
• -s, --saveLogs — save log files with date and time instead of deleting the old (with [-noOfOldFiles]). preserve the lore 📚
• -c, --compressWith — compress saved log files (e.g. with -c 'gzip -9'). zip it and make it smol 🍓
• -C, --color — use color for a line if specified pattern matches. Supported colors are: 'red', 'green', 'yellow', 'blue', 'magenta', 'cyan'. This option can be used multiple times. Example: --color red=ERROR rainbow-ify your grep results 💅
• -g, --grep — grep for lines with the specified expression. Example: --grep 'ERROR|WARNING' filter the noise, keep the drama 🔥
• -V — print version(s). version check, bestie ✨

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2001-2022 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README) Published under the GNU General Public License or any later version. respect the license, periodt 🫶

💖 cute little sign-off: source/version is perl v5.34.0, date is 2022-03-20, and the manual is MULTITAIL(1). bye bestie, go watch those logs! 🦋