Information about the package, multitail, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The multitail package is designed for, View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.
Package Name:
multitail
Summary:
View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows
Description:
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular expressions), for faster recognition of what is important and what not. Multitail can also filter lines (again with regular expressions) and has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like 'watch' and such.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
6.2.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
161 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the multitail package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install multitail
This command will install multitail on the server.
yum remove multitail
This command will un-install multitail on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove multitail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove multitail
This command will un-install multitail on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove multitail when using the -y flag.
yum update multitail
This command will update multitail to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove multitail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update multitail
This command will update multitail to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove multitail when using the -y flag.
yum info multitail
This command will show you core information about the multitail package.
yum deplist multitail
This command will show you the dependencies for multitail. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update multitail
This command will check if there is an update waiting on multitail. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.