just a suggestion regarding another cool utility I've come across...
mikeggh opened this issue · 6 comments
Recently I came across spacer, and it is the first time I've considered changing my approach to console based tailing..
https://github.com/samwho/spacer
This would be a really cool feature to have with tailspin! I may admit though, I think tailspin has won me over already...
keep up good work!
Hi @mikeggh and thanks for opening this issue. I'm glad you like tailspin so far.
One of my goals with tailspin is to create a tool that is easy to integrate with other command line tools, like spacer for example.
Although not possible today, ideally you would be able to run:
tspin --follow --print some.log | spacer --after 5
# instead of
tail -f some.log | spacer --after 5I believe this will be possible when #75 is fixed.
Sounds good.. looking forward to all updates! I've already incorporated it into my arsenal.. =]
have a good weekend
I had decided to take a dive to see if I could add some timing/statistics to "Waiting for data." I had never used less +F, and had no idea it was where the message was coming from. It makes a lot more sense now that I've tracked things down, and understand why for the time being it is pretty static. I had even checked if it would be easy to LD_PRELOAD it for my own usage, and it just doesn't seem worth it when able to use spacer as you stated. =]
I did some testing and you can already use tailspin for highlighting in combination with other tools, like spacer.
For example, in combination with tail and spacer you could do this:
tail -f some.log | tspin | spacer --after 5Is this what you were thinking about?
Yeah, That works for now! It was my initial train of thought, and then I wanted to add some extra information to the "Waiting for data" line. I was considering "Waiting for data for 10 seconds," or "10 lines per minute." It works till one day I wanna modify less, or finally bite the bullet and try my hand at rust. :)
Spacer was just the most recent change I've done for my 'tailing' in 20 yrs until I found tailspin. The ease of quickly recognizing the important aspects (IPs, times, and regexp customizations) is a much better feature over just having some standard line break via timing... so thanks again!
Great! Thanks for the feedback, glad you're enjoying using tailspin 😄 .