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Re: Looking for a parallel log viewer



On Mi, 16 mar 11, 01:23:45, Malte Forkel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a tool that can display multiple log files and scroll
> them based on their timestamps in a synchronized fashion.
> 
> I have three interacting applications, each writing its own log file. I
> would like to be able to look at corresponding time intervals in each of
> those log files in parallel. If I use three editor windows, I have to
> manually scroll each of them, which is tedious and error prone. At
> least, when I do it :-).
> 
> To make things a little more interesting, each log is using its own
> timestamp format. I can't modify those formats. So the viewer's
> timestamp reader would have to be configurable. All timestamps have a
> resolution of one second or better.
> 
> Could anyone point me to a tool that can (be forced to) do what I want?

vim's 'scrollbind' option can be used for this. See also the 'split' and 
'vsplit' commands, according to your preferences and/or display size.

Regards,
Andrei
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