BSD Ports

misc/tailspin 7.0.0 NetBSD

Log file highlighter

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
adecf43c85
License
mit
Categories
misc
Package size
987.2 KiB, 3210.2 KiB installed

Description

A log file highlighter.

tailspin works by reading through a log file line by line, running a series of regexes against each line. The regexes recognize patterns like dates, numbers, severity keywords and more.

tailspin does not make any assumptions on the format or position of the items it wants to highlight. For this reason, it requires no configuration or setup and will work predictably regardless of the format the log file is in.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDmisc/tailspin7.0.0
FreeBSDsysutils/tailspin7.0.0_3
DragonFlysysutils/tailspin5.0.0
HardenedBSDsysutils/tailspin7.0.0_2
GhostBSDsysutils/tailspin7.0.0_2

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install tailspin

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/misc/tailspin && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_647.0.0
NetBSD 10.1 aarch646.1.0
SmartOS / illumos x86_647.0.0
macOS 15 arm647.0.0

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
adecf43c85 pin misc/tailspin: update to 7.0.0
This release marks almost four years since the first version of tailspin. Since then, there have been many changes and many refinements´, so for 7.0.0, thought it would be a good time to reflect a bit on the journey. Starting out, I read lots of colorless logs in the terminal in very different formats. After a while, I got a very simple idea: I know what a timestamp / IP address / UUID etc. looks like. I recognize this and this part of the log line as distinct things, and if I can distinguish these different elements from each other, then surely a cli should be able to as well. The first version of tailspin (1.0) was written in Go and focused on highlighting the correct elements without …