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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:20:35 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Right direction, but I was really looking for something that'd highlight
>> the matches.
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> How do you want it highlighted? Which shell is this? Can it have multiple
> highlights? You couldn't associate highlight with output that's piped unless
> the highlight is symbolic (markup). How about opening the output in an
> editor and then use a highlighter?
bash, and the point is to "tail and follow": tail -f file so piping to an
editor is not liable to work as intended.
The idea is to add a new string, eg tail -f log myhost and it'll do the
usual tail thing, but wherever "myhost" matches, it'll highlight -
different color, reverse video, whatever. Without mucking up the tail
stream, requiring a browser or editor, etc.
Someone suggested colortail - will look at it. Might be the right thing.
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