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A curses-based utility script for tailing multiple files at the same time

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multitail-curses

A curses-based utility script for tailing multiple files simultaneously.

I made this script for quickly tailing several log files in the same terminal window.

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/thobbs/multitail-curses/master/screenshot.png

Installation

The easiest way to install this is through pip or easy_install::

pip install -U multitail-curses

You can also install from source by running::

python setup.py install

Usage

You can tail one to four files simultaneously. For example::

multitail foo.log bar.log

Press CTRL-C to stop tailing.

License

This project is open source under the MIT license <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>_.