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Is there any log viewer application for OS X out there, which is a little bit more "fancy" than tail? Say, with some highlighting capabilities and filtering?

The only one I found was KIWI, but I was not very happy, because it seemed to be a bit slow and pushed stack traces far out to the right side.

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less -F is useful in Terminal.app (or key F in less) – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 8 '11 at 20:17
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Have you looked at the "Console" application that's already installed on your Mac under /Applications/Utilities/Console.app? Its entire job is to display the various log files, and it's definitely "a little bit more 'fancy' than tail".

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Great screen shot! How did you catch the shadow - white background? – trolle3000 Aug 9 '11 at 5:53
Although it lacks highlighting, it seems to be quite fast and the filtering works nice. – Elbonian Aug 10 '11 at 8:21
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You might also like the cross-platform multitail. It's an ncurses-based console application which has great searching/filtering support. I especially like merging several files into one and coloring files by applying regular expressions. Also, being console-based, you can easily use it over SSH.

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