Taill

Taill is a command-line tool that tails a file and watches for changes. It uses the notify crate to watch for file modifications and the bat crate to pretty-print the log output.

Features

• Watch a file or files matching a pattern for changes.
• Tail the file and print new content as it is added.
• Pretty-print log output using bat.

Usage

To use Taill, run the following command:

taill -f <file-pattern>

Arguments

• -f, --pattern: The file pattern to watch. This argument is required.

Example

taill -f "*.log"

This command will watch all files with the .log extension in the current directory and print new content as it is added.

Installation

To install Taill, you need to have Rust and Cargo installed. Then, you can build the project using the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/zhangzhishan/taill.git
cd taill
cargo build --release

After building the project, you can run the taill executable from the target/release directory.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

taill

A command-line utility to tail files and watch for changes using pattern matching. Monitor files in real-time as they're updated, with support for glob patterns to watch multiple files simultaneously.

Installation

Install from crates.io:

cargo install taill

Usage

taill -f <pattern>

Examples

Watch all log files in current directory:

taill -f "*.log"

Watch specific file:

taill -f "app.log"

Watch files in a specific directory:

taill -f "logs/*.txt"

Features

• Real-time file monitoring
• Pattern matching using glob syntax
• Automatic detection of new files matching the pattern
• Efficient resource usage
• Non-recursive directory watching

Arguments

• -f <pattern>: The file pattern to watch (required)
• --help: Display help information
• --version: Display version information

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Zhishan Zhang (zhangzhishanlo@gmail.com)