On 18 Jun 2009, at 13:55, Jon Dye wrote: I'm currently tailing some log files so I can watch what's going on with a particular process. What I'd really like to do is to highlight particular matches in the file, preferably with different colours. Does anyone know of any command line applications that could do something like this?
I have looked at multitail for this in the past, but haven't yet had chance to use it - might be able to do what you are after.
http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
Jim