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Kendor
Asked: 2013-06-19 13:09:40 +0800 CST

Text/Log Viewer that that will allow filtering by words/phrases?

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I'm looking for a GUI-based text/log viewer that will allow to only display lines that contain particular phrases/words/characters. The logs may not necessarily by OS related but from 3rd party applications.

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    One suggestion is "glogg", it's available as an Ubuntu package and doesn't have nasty dependencies (Qt4-based).

    Another one is ksystemlog, not sure if it does filtering as you require.

    Finally I have to ask, why does it have to be GUI? Personally I'd use the old:

    tail -f $LOGFILE |grep particular-phrase

    there's also swatch which is possibly nicer, though I have never used it.

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