MacOS – n OS X ‘tail’ tool that can monitor remote log files

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I am looking for a visual tail tool that can monitor several local or remote log files.

Optional features that interest me: color highlight based on log error level, coloring for special words, filtering of messages and/or notifications on new activity.

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You may try to use a combination of multitail and ssh.

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LICEcap is free (GPL), works on MacOSX, and capture animated GIF directly.

http://www.cockos.com/licecap/

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MacOS – Terminal: Is there a way to be notified of activity when tailing an error log

Terminal's Dock icon starts bouncing if a tab that isn't active prints \a:

tail -f /var/log/system.log | sed $'s/$/\a/'

Or run sudo gem install terminal-notifier and do something like this:

tail -f /var/log/system.log | while IFS= read -r l; do echo "$l"; terminal-notifier -message "$l" > /dev/null; done

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