Projects

inotail

inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the file ... [More] every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread. [Less]

utilsdotnet

some .net rewrites of GNU utilities and some original works tail - a .net version of the nix utility touch - a .net version of the nix utility clipviewer - lets you get the contents of rich formatted text off of the clipboard as html filesnatcher - watches a directory for file creation and tries ... [More] to copy the files when they appear ircBot.net - an IRC bot in C#. Does a Google Image Search and returns a random image link from the top 100 results. It sends this link to the #channel the bot is in. [Less]

evtail

This project is designed to provide a command-line interface (like unix's 'tail -f') to the Windows Event Log. An example: C:\Projects\evtail>evtail System 2006-08-10 00:03:40 [SANITY] -> RemoteAccess Information: The connection to Dodo made by user samgentle using device COM3 ... [More] was disconnected.                                                                                                                                                                   2006-08-10 01:00:58 [SANITY] -> RemoteAccess Information: The user samgentle successfully established a connection to Dodo using the device COM3. [Less]

log-manager

Log ManagerFed up with wading through massive log files and trying to match up log entries between different servers? A while back I wrote a small log file viewer utility (my first ever C# program, so excuse the mess) to let you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in ... [More] real time. It works on the same principle as the 'tail -f' command in unix, constantly checking for any additional lines in the file and printing them out. Basic featuresDisplay files on local/network Windows machines, or on remote machines via Telnet/SSH Pause/unpause one or all of the log files Copy a section onto the clipboard Clear the contents of all the windows (so you don't have to wade through reams of startup messages) Specify wildcards and date placeholders in your filenames Use pattern matching to perform colouring-in and/or replacements on each line Save one or all of the window contents to a file or directory You'll need to have installed the .NET Framework Version 1.1 first, and then it's just a matter of editing the default 'logs.xml' configuration file to tell it what files to look at. There's an example of the telnet version in 'purelogs.xml', and a copy of the config file schema in 'config-file-schema.xsd'. Comments/suggestions (even suggestive comments) welcome. [Less]

rlogwatch

Similar to "tail -f", but viewable in a browser. It provides some basic server side code to tail logs as well as some basic client side code to view the log as it streams to the client browser. After running.. ./bin/log_watch.rb start browse to: http://localhost:4000/?file=test.log where file= a file on the file system to tail

clump

Clump is a simple Gui Tail. It also allows capture of output from commands on the console. The output captured can then be saved to a file for further analysis if needed.

pytailer

Python tail is a simple implementation of GNU tail and head. It provides 3 main functions that can be performed on any file-like object that supports seek() and tell(). tail - read lines from the end of a file head - read lines from the top of a file follow - read lines as a file grows It also ... [More] comes with pytail, a command line version offering the same functionality as GNU tail. This can be particularly useful on Windows systems that have no tail equivalent. To easy install: easy_install tailerExamplesf = open('test.txt', 'w') for i in range(11): f.write('Line %d\n' % (i + 1)) f.close() import tailer # Get the last 3 lines of the file tailer.tail(open('test.txt'), 3) # ['Line 9', 'Line 10', 'Line 11'] # Get the first 3 lines of the file tailer.head(open('test.txt'), 3) # ['Line 1', 'Line 2', 'Line 3'] # Follow the file as it grows for line in tailer.follow(open('test.txt')): print line [Less]

tailscape

TailScape is a graphical representation of the commonly used 'tail -f' utility written in C++ using QT. TailScape will support saving/loading viewing sessions, syntax highlighting, custom watcher highlighting and regenerative file tracking.

wintailsharp

There are a ton of GUI's for 'tail -f' functionality on Windows, but most are bare-bones affairs. This is a more feature-complete, hopefully easy to use, tail GUI. Some of the features available include: the ability to stop a tail, ability to stop the automatic scrolling when new ... [More] content arrives, and highlighting lines of content based on regular expressions with configurable colors. [Less]

smoothtail

Believe it or not, Microsoft Windows has not got any tail utilies that are simultaneously good, free, and easy to use. To remedy this situation I wrote what is essentially a helper script that uses Florian Frank's excellent File::Tail library. Combine an explanation (in the script itself) ... [More] of how to add this tail utility to the Windows "Send To" menu with pattern matching and the result is a nice little tail utility. [Less]