Combines a (Unix like) Tail and a Search including regular expressions, AND, OR, search over more than one line, dynamically appended search expressions during runtime, output to file or text field
# Used for monitoring log files in real time
# Projects: Group related log files in one project
# Highlights keywords in different colors
# Users can choose the keywords
# Search the log files
# Easy to use GUI with Drag and Drop features
# Works on Windows 2003, XP, 2000, 98, NT and Linux
# Multiple log files can be tailed at the same time
# Shows line number and column number of the cursor
# Shows last modified date and time
# Keeps track of recently opened documents
TailMe is an utility providing functions similar to the UNIX/Linux command "tail": it lists the last changed lines/characters in a text file.
You can always see changes taking place in the file on the fly. It is very usefull for monitoring log files of applications - e.g. Apache's error.log and access.log.
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TailMe can monitor several log files at the same time and provides a more expressive output than console"tail" programs can do.
Functions:
o add/remove monitor files at runtime
o automatic purge of text buffer
o resizeable monitor windows
o possibility to minimize TailMe into the system tray
o lines with special (user-defined) key words are written in different colors
o shrinked log files are symbolized with a horizontal line
o stop/continue monitoring via double click in the window area of the corresponding monitor file
o list of "recent files" is available and saved in the INI file
o drag&drop of files from the Explorer
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.
For a complete list of features, look here.