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toolong

View, tail, merge, and search log files

TLDR

Open and view a log file
$ tl [access.log]
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Merge and view multiple logs by timestamp
$ tl [server.log] [app.log] --merge
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Pipe live output into toolong
$ tail -f [/var/log/syslog] | tl
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SYNOPSIS

tl [options] [files...]

DESCRIPTION

toolong is a terminal application for viewing and analyzing log files, including JSONL. It can open multi-gigabyte files instantly, live-tail logs, auto-detect timestamps for merging multiple files, handle compressed .bz/.bz2 files, and syntax-highlight common log formats.

HISTORY

toolong was created by Will McGugan (Textualize) and is written in Python using the Textual framework.

SEE ALSO

lnav(1), less(1), multitail(1)

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