ctail(1)

ctail1

Watch and colorize a logfile

Usage

ctail [FILE]

Overview

ctail is a very simple alias that watches a file and colorizes it. It's very useful for monitoring logfiles.

Examples

ctail /var/log/syslog

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–13

Author

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

From byobu 5.133-1.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.