swatchdog

Log file viewer with regexp matching, highlighting & hooks

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/swatchdog.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install swatch
Ubuntu
apt-get install swatch
Alpine
apk add swatch
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install swatch
Fedora
dnf install swatch
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install swatch
Raspbian
apt-get install swatch
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/swatchdog
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/swatchdog swatchdog powered by Commando

swatch

Log file viewer with regexp matching, highlighting & hooks

Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. It reads a configuration file which contains pattern(s) to look for and action(s) to perform when each pattern is found. A typical action is echoing the matched line in a variety of colours and formats including reverse video, bold, underline, and normal, which swatch knows how to do internally. Other actions include sending mail or executing an arbitrary program on the line. Swatch is written in Perl and uses Perl regular expressions for line matching.