Kale (colour-tail → cail → kale) behaves similarily to tail's live-follow mode, but with extra support for highlighting streamed text.
2, Evolving - This project is healthy, but might lack testing or documentation or it is prone to breaking changes
kale
Kale is built to help find important logs; for example:
kale --whole Timeout < /var/log/syslog | less
# or
cat /var/log/syslog | kale --whole Timeout | less
highlights timeout logs and passes them to less to let you scroll through highlighted text.
On Linux distributions that support Snap packages, run:
sudo snap install kale
- Patched a recent error in whole-line support.
- Added an icon
- Fixed validation of config files; specifying only literals in a config file caused undefined errors.
- Added experimental variable support to named patterns. The exact syntax may change during the next release.
- Added support for named patterns drawn from ,json pattern files (see CLI help for more details)
- Removed
--defaultflag, since this was always applied when no patterns were provided
- Added error-handling for invalid regular expressions
- Added
strip-ansi-streamto remove ansi escape sequences from input data.
- Reported nodejs/node #8095, and updated to v7.10.0 which fixed a bug in which Kale only worked for a limited number of lines before halting.
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Corrected error in which documentation incorrectly displayed project author.
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Added inverted-colour mode — --invert — which highlights match backgrounds rather than characters. This is useful when matches are rare.
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Added options to highlight whole-line, — --whole-line — rather than individual matches, which is useful for spotting key-lines in a log-file.
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uncaught errors are now presented tidily to the user.
The project icon was made by Amy Devereux as part of her project 365cons and is used with permission. If you wish to use this icon yourself, contact Amy.
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Copyright (c) 2020 Róisín Grannell
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