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diff --git a/misc/mtail/DESCR b/misc/mtail/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d5d5eae6abb --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/mtail/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +mtail is a small tail workalike that performs output coloring using ansi +escape sequences (although the sequences are overridable, so you could cause +it to output something else, e.g. html font tags, if you really wanted to). +mtail is written in python, is fairly small, and should be relatively +platform-independent. + +It has a config file that can contain an arbitrary number of entries, each +of which has a series of regular expressions to indicate which files to color +according to which entry. for each entry, the config file specifies a coloring +scheme using regular expressions and, optionally, filters to apply to each +line before coloring (for example, to strip out extra info, etc.). the config +file also may override the predefined colors and the escape sequences (or +whatever) actually used to perform the coloring. |