_|_|            _|  _|
  _|        _|_|    _|  _|    _|_|    _|          _|
_|_|_|_|  _|    _|  _|  _|  _|    _|  _|    _|    _|
  _|      _|    _|  _|  _|  _|    _|    _|  _|  _|
  _|        _|_|    _|  _|    _|_|        _|  _|

What is this thing

This is a program that watches files and prints to stdout what is being written to them. In this way it is similar to tail -F. Planned are some unique features however:

• Can follow all files matching a glob pattern. Newly created files that match the pattern will be detected and followed.
• Can filter output in various ways
• filter selection and config is interactive

Why the glob thing?

This is useful for monitoring log files from a program that writes to log files with timestamps in the filename, so it is constantly changing which file it writes to. In this scenario its a pain to monitor the application with tail or similar programs because the files they read will eventually stop being written to.

Example

$ ls
application.2016-12-01.08.log
$
#etc...