How I fell out of love with tail
From the day I discovered the infamous tail command on Unix/Linux I was using it to follow logfiles. Most of the times, after a quick investigation combined with a smart grep command, to filter out noise, or to just catch the errors. I remember complete sessions of following 10 logfiles combined with advanced filtering after each discovery. But that is past tense, after I discovered lnav.It serves the same purpose, following logfiles. But there is a big difference, it understands logfiles, it has a memory, you can pick up sessions where you left off, and it has advanced filtering on the fly. That means no more ctrl-c arrow-up and edit the last tail command. It is also capable of decompressing zipped logfiles which makes searching in old logfiles so much easier. ...