colortail

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "\n                                    Colortail\n                                      0.3.5\n\n\n------\nThis software is Copyright (C) 2009 by Joakim Ek \n\u003cjoakim_ek@outlook.com\u003e. I accept no responsibility for any damage this \nsoftware may or may not do to your system - you use it completely at your \nown risk. This software comes under the GPL license. See the COPYING file \nfor full legal details.\n------\n\nThis file contains:\n\n  1. Overview\n  2. Background\n  3. Features\n  4. Installing\n  5. Usage\n  6. Standard disclaimer\n  7. Bugs\n  8. Thanks\n\n\n1. OVERVIEW\n\nColortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files\nwhere it\u0027s specified which patterns results in which colors.\n\nColortail uses regular expressions (see regex(7)) to determine which lines and \nparts of lines to print in which colors.\n\n\n2. BACKGROUND\n\nMy thoughts about colortail started when I was running a \ntail -f -q /var/log/foo /var/log/bar in the background of my irc session and I\nwanted to quickly see if something strange was going on. I wanted different\nlines in different colors so it\u0027s easy to see what is happening. I searched on\nthe internet but didn\u0027t find any program that did what I wanted. So I started\nto code on colortail. Version 0.1 didn\u0027t use regular expressions but instead \nhad a somewhat DOSish config format with \u0027*\u0027 and \u0027?\u0027. In 0.2 I changed to\nregular expressions. After 0.2 I didn\u0027t do much with colortail for a long\nwhile, but then I got a patch, that made it possible to print just parts of\nlines in a color, I got some new inspiration but because the code was a big\nmess I decided to do a rewrite in C++. I like the modularity that the C++\nclasses \"forces\" one to do. And because I\u0027ve been brainwashed with Java in\nschool I find the object view the most natural.\n\n\n3. FEATURES\n\nOK, so what is this colortail thing good for?\n\nI can\u0027t say that colortail is a substitute for tail, not yet anyway. Right\nnow colortail lacks some major features the tail has. But I\u0027ll add this \nfeatures in",
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