Multitail
For viewing multiple logs at the same time, install multitail.
Phrasebook
Viewing all logs in one file
$ multitail --mergeall *.log
Keyboard shortcuts
q
- Quit
/
- Search in all windows
Shift + /
- Search and highlight in all windows
b
- Scroll back
B
- Scroll back in all windows merged into one window
I
- Toggle case sensitivity for searches
a
- add a new window or add another file/program to an existing window
d
- Delete a window (or a file/program from a window)
s
- Swap the location of 2 windows
e
- Enter/edit regular expressions
f
- Enter/edit in line filter regexps
c
- Set/change colors
v
- Toggle vertical split
0...9
- Set a mark in a window so that you can easily see what has changed since the last time you looked
R
- Restart a window
Ctrl + v
- Select conversion scheme(s)
Ctrl + t
- toggle subwindow before lines
Y
- Send a signal to a window (for commands)
y
- Set linewrap
o
- Wipe (clear) a window
O
- Wipe all windows
T
- Truncate a logfile
g
- Make screendump
r
- Redraw screen
l
- List keybindings
i
- Info
t
- Statistics
j
- Set window sizes
z
- Hide/unhide a window
u
- Hide all windows but the one selected
U
- Unhide all windows
w
- Write a script which starts multitail with the current settings (the files that are monitored, regular expressions, etc.)
n
- Clear the buffer of a window
N
- Clear all buffers of all windows
m
- Set the size of a buffer
k
- Enter a (limited) terminal-mode
p
- Pause all windows
P
- (un-)pause one window