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diff --git a/system/multitail/README b/system/multitail/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..301dd551d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/multitail/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. +The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with +ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard +has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. + +That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging +of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while displaying +the logfiles (through regular expressions), for faster recognition +of what is important and what not. It can also filter lines (again with regular +expressions). It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions +and deleting and adding windows. + +One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. +When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the +functionality of tools like 'watch' and such. |