ztail: Multi-file, colored, filtered log tailer.

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An even more improved version of xtail/tail -f, including inotify support, full regex-based filtering, substitution, and colorization.

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Name	Description	Default
inotify	Enable inotify support	Enabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Versions [RSS]	1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.2, 1.2.0.3
Dependencies	array, base (>=4 && <5), hinotify, old-locale, process, regex-compat, time, unix [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Dylan Simon
Maintainer	dylan@dylex.net
Category	System, Console
Uploaded	by DylanSimon at 2010-12-03T19:20:44Z
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Executables	ztail
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An even more improved version of xtail/tail -f.

Requirements:
 - ghc
 - hinotify (http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hinotify)

Example:
  ztail -I -r300 \
	-c bright,red /var/log/kernel \
	-c yellow /var/log/daemon \
	-a -c blue -t '%b %d %H:%M:%S' -h '\@ ' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

TODO:
  configuration file (currently the command line can get unwieldy)

https://dylex.net:9947/src

Suggestions, improvements, patches, complaints welcome.