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lnav is intended to replace tail/grep. It has some additional fancy features, but it's mainly about raising the level of the basic "watching a log file" experience.
lnav.org/2013/09/10/c...
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Competing with ‘tail -f’
The standard utilities are tough competition.
lnav.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
lnav is intended to replace tail/grep. It has some additional fancy features, but it's mainly about raising the level of the basic "watching a log file" experience.
lnav.org/2013/09/10/c...
lnav.org/2013/09/10/c...
Guilty as charged, I only use dark themes and haven’t taken care to make solarized light usable. If you can point me at a light theme you like, I can try to include it in the upcoming v0.13 release.
April 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Guilty as charged, I only use dark themes and haven’t taken care to make solarized light usable. If you can point me at a light theme you like, I can try to include it in the upcoming v0.13 release.
Ah, that sucks, I'm sorry. Most of the stuff I work with rolls logs frequently, so I'm not dealing with large files regularly. If you have some time, can you try out the latest version (v0.12.3)? Sending along the crash logs from that would help me and others. Or, send some problematic files.
Release v0.12.3 · tstack/lnav
lnav v0.12.3
Features:
Files that contain a mixture of log messages from separate
services (e.g. docker logs) can now be automatically
de-multiplexed into separate files that lnav can digest.
The ...
github.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Ah, that sucks, I'm sorry. Most of the stuff I work with rolls logs frequently, so I'm not dealing with large files regularly. If you have some time, can you try out the latest version (v0.12.3)? Sending along the crash logs from that would help me and others. Or, send some problematic files.
Can I ask how it falls short?
December 11, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Can I ask how it falls short?