logviewer 1.7 review

logviewer is a GUI application for easy management of log files

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 210K Developer: angm

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logviewer is a GUI application for easy management of log files. It features page layout configuration, text filtering and date-time filtering for a log's name and for its pages, a date-time format variable, page selection and saving, and configurable file patterns and directories to analyze.

Here are some key features of "logviewer":
selection of configuration file on starting
automatic load from configuration file of files list to show
search configuration: files to show, directories to search files and files patterns to find (*.log, *log*.txt...)
layout of showing files (show on pages)
page configuration: number of characters per line and number of lines per page
files list filtering based on "date-time from/date-time to" filters or text pattern filter
pages-lines filtering based on "date-time from/date-time to" filters or text pattern filter
date-time format configuration: standard sequence yyyymmddhhmmss, but with variables separators
saving filtered or selected pages to new file


Installation

The installation is standard:
Source version:

- copy and decompression of package .tar.gz to installation directory
- ./configure
- make
- logviewer executable are created in src directory
(installation subdirectory)

Binary version:

- copy and decompression of package .tar.gz to installation directory
- decompressed file logviewer is the executable