Re: [Hampshire] Tailing in two colours

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Tailing in two colours

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:23:59AM +0100, Graeme Hilton wrote:
> Is there a way to have tail follow two files and display each in a
> different colour on the terminal? I've looked at bash colouring, but that
> only seems to cover coloured prompts!
>
> In my case I want to follow httpd_access and httpd_error and want the
> error log to show up red, interspersed with the access log.


A quick googling turns up multitail[1], which may be able to manage
it.

Hugo.

[1] http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

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