Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:03:53 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: 'User Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tailing logs Message-ID: <48AED559.2000907@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48AECD11.1000705@pixelhammer.com> References: <48AECD11.1000705@pixelhammer.com>
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DAve wrote: > I would love to have a way to tail a log, like piping to grep, except > I see every line and the lines I would normally grep for are > highlighted. That would be cool. Anyone know of a bash command or tool > that will do this? > > Side note, I am tailing sendmail after changes to my outbound queue > runners. I want to highlight my sm-mta-out lines but still see all lines. > > DAve If you dont mind installing a few perl modules, try textproc/p5-ack then just tail -f /var/log/LOGNAME | ack --color --passthru STRING Vince
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