logprism 0.1.1

Prism – Colourise log files (with ANSI characters codes)

A command line log colouriser utility.

Dependencies

Required:

• argh (argument parsing)

• ordereddict (if using Python 2.6)

Optional:

• watchdog (optional for watching files and directories with the -w option)

• pytest (optional for running tests)

Installation

From Python package index (Pypi):

(sudo) pip install logprism

or from Github:

(sudo) pip install argh watchdog

git clone https://github.com/peterhil/prism.git

cd prism

(sudo) python setyp.py install

Usage examples

• prism -g /var/log/*.log

• prism -m /var/log/apache2/*log

• prism /opt/local/var/macports/logs/*/*.log

Todo

• Show some tail lines when using -w: Make a line cache (count total lines with wc -l) from the end of the file using some blocksize.

  1. Can be done with readlines() first. Then seek and read blocksize bytes from len(file)-blocksize and update cache.

  2. Later enable ncurses scrolling for earlier lines?

  3. Show n lines by default (a screenful / filecount?)