SwingTail

SwingTail is a small graphical Java/Swing implementation of the Unix tail command.

It has a simple interface with tabs so that you can have multiple files open at the same time. Open files can be paused and resumed by clicking on the play/pause icon on the tab. There is also a bookmark feature that works just like boomarks in a web browser.

Font, how many lines that should be read from end of the files upon opening (-n parameter in Unix), and various other settings can be configrued using a simple settings dialog.

Through the filter dialog the user can set a variaty of different filters for the tailing. Rows can be marked with color or sound, hidden or, when found, pause the tail among other things. Each filter can be activated or deactivated by selecting a checkbox, this way the user will never have to delete a existing filter just so it will not run.

Download

Version 2.1 can be downloaded here as JAR file (it requires Java 1.6).

All you need to do to start SwingTail is to double click on the JAR file and it should start right away if you have Java 1.6 installed.

Source code

The source code can be downloaded from the following subversion repository: svn://unlogic.se/swingtail

License

SwingTail is released under the GPLv3 license and is copyright Robert Olofsson and Johan Dahlgren.

Updates

2009-11-19 SwingTail 2.2

First I would like to apologize for not keeping a update log here as to what happened between the versions. This will improve from now on.

• Fixed a probable memory leak caused by the warning sound function. This fix has improved performance of SwingTail.
• Fixed the problem with not being able to copy text from SwingTail.