=pod =begin html Tail-Tool =head1 Tail-Tool Library for tailing files with plugins to enhance the output of the tail =head1 SYNOPSIS tailt [option] file1 [ file2 ...] tailt --help | --man | --VERSION OPTIONS: file This can be a local file or a remote file specified by an ssh URI eg ssh://user@example.com:22//var/log/error.log -r --restart Turn on menu, which allows chnaging of options/files/plugin configuration on the fly. To see the menu type any thing other than q and press enter, typing q & enter quit. -n --lines=int The number of lines form the end of a file to start tailing The default is 10. -c --config=str Use the str config option from previously save config --no_inotify Inotify works wonderfully usually but if a file is on a network networked drive it sometimes doesn't fire when a tailed file changes, this option turns off inotify and uses the polling option -d --disable=file Add the file to the list of files but don't automatically start tailing it. This can be specified more than once for multiple disabled files or comma/semi-comma seperated -v --verbose Show more detailed option --VERSION Prints the version information --help Prints this help information --man Prints the full documentation for tailt PLUGIN OPTIONS: -h --highlight Sets up the hightlight plugin options -m --match Sets up the match plugin option to only show lines that natch the regexp. -i --ignore Sets up the ignore plugin options to hide all lines that match the regexp. -r --replace Sets op the replace plugin option which chnages match values. --spacing key=value =head1 DESCRIPTION L allows you to =head1 INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install =head1 SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Tail::Tool You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Tail-Tool AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Tail-Tool CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Tail-Tool Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Tool/ Source Code git://github.com/ivanwills/Tail-Tool.git =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Ivan Wills This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information. =cut