NAME

tailt - Tail files using the Tail::Tool library

VERSION

This documentation refers to tailt version 0.4.8.

SYNOPSIS

   tailt [option] file1 [ file2 ...]
   tailt --help | --man | --VERSION

 FILES:
  Specify one or more local or remote files to tail:
  local             specify local file (relative ./file, absolute /dir/file)
  scp               Specify files (similar to vim) scp://[user@]host:[port](file/relative/to/home/dir|/absolute/file)
  ssh               Specify files with ssh ssh://[user@]host[:port]/file

 OPTIONS:
  -r --restart      Turn on menu, which allows chnaging of options/files/plugin
                    configuration on the fly. To see the menu type any thing
                    other than q and press enter, typing q & enter quit.
  -n --lines=int    The number of lines form the end of a file to start tailing
                    The default is 10.
  -c --config=str   Use the str config option from previously save config
     --no_inotify   Inotify works wonderfully usually but if a file is on a network
                    networked drive it sometimes doesn't fire when a tailed file
                    changes, this option turns off inotify and uses the polling
                    option
  -d --disable=file
                    Add the file to the list of files but don't automatically
                    start tailing it. This can be specified more than once for
                    multiple disabled files or comma/semi-comma seperated

  -v --verbose      Show more detailed option
     --VERSION      Prints the version information
     --help         Prints this help information
     --man          Prints the full documentation for tailt

 PLUGIN OPTIONS:
  -h --highlight    Sets up the hightlight plugin options
  -m --match        Sets up the match plugin option to only show lines that natch
                    the regexp.
  -i --ignore       Sets up the ignore plugin options to hide all lines that
                    match the regexp.
  -r --replace key=value
                    Sets op the replace plugin option which chnages match values.
            Keys:
                regex   A regular expression to match log line content
                replace A string to replace the contents matched above
     --spacing key=value
                    Add spacing when no new lines have occured for a period
                    of time
            Keys:
                times   he time in seconds since last seen output (comma separated list of times)
                lines   he number of lines to show for the matching time (also comma separated list)
     --grouplines key=value
                    Controls the way lines are processed. If used this can
                    allow you to control when a line is considered to start
                    for example if you log file occasionally out puts messages
                    that span several lines this can be used to group the
                    lines back before (for example) using the highligh plugin.
            Keys:
                regex   A regular expression to match log line content
                end     How to treat line ends? (Bool 0 or 1)

DESCRIPTION

Files

You can specify local files either relatively or absolutely. Remote files uses a vim like syntax for specifying remote files, it uses the ssh protocol which may mean that you may have issues if you don't use ssh keys. The format for the URI is:

 ssh://[user@]host[:port]/(home/relative/file|/absolute/file)

Note if you want a absolute file location you must have two slashes at the start of the path. One slash means that the file is relative to the user that you are logging in as.

Config

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

DIAGNOSTICS

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

~/.tailtrc

Stores the saved configuration options (stored in YAML format)

DEPENDENCIES

INCOMPATIBILITIES

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no known bugs in this module.

Please report problems to Ivan Wills (ivan.wills@gamil.com).

Patches are welcome.

AUTHOR

Ivan Wills - (ivan.wills@gamil.com)

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010 Ivan Wills (14 Mullion Close, Hornsby Heights, NSW, Australia, 2077). All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.