Tailr

Quickly tail local and remote files

Installation

npm install -g tailr

to add zsh completions:

tailr --completions >> ~/.zshrc

NOTE: If you're using the completions and you get a warning about insecure directories it's because the owner of the directory ".../node/.../lib/node_modules/tailr/completions" should be either the root user or the current user.

Configuration

Create a file named '.tailr.coffee' in your home directory:

module.exports =
  logs:
    my_remote_log:
      server: 'myserver'
      username: 'myuser'
      port: 1234
      filename: '/path/to/file/on/remote/server.log'
    my_local_log:
      filename: '/path/to/local/file'

  highlights:
    blabla: 'red'

Usage

# show the names of the logs specified in ~/.tailr.coffee
tailr --list

# tail a specific log:
tailr my_remote_log

# tail and highlight specified expressions:
tailr my_remote_log expr1
tailr my_remote_log expr1=red
tailr my_remote_log expr1=red,bgWhite
tailr my_remote_log expr1=underline
  # you can use "\_" instead of underline:
tailr my_remote_log expr1=_

Changelog

0.2.0 (2013-09-10)

• added support for tailing multiple servers at once

0.1.5 (2013-02-26)

• remove the 0x0e (ascii 14, shift-out) character before console.log (it messes up the terminal).

0.1.4 (2013-02-04)

• got rid of the "tail" command (you can now use "tailr {log}")
• "tailr completions" is now "tailr --completions"
• "tailr list" is now "tailr --list"

0.1.3 (2013-02-04)

• Highlighting bugfixes
• Improved highlighter: you can now define foreground and background color:

  tailr tail mylog expr1=red,bgWhite,underline
  tailr tail mylog expr1=red,bgWhite,_

• Added partial sudo support (by Avia Aharon)

0.1.2 (2013-02-04)

• Added highlighting

0.1.1 (2013-02-04)

• Added zsh completions