Splex

Instalation

To install globally, do:

npm i -g splex

What is Splex

Need to watch 4 log files?

Tired of doing tail -f log.file in 4 terminal panels/tabs/windows?

Enter Splex

Splex is a streaming log multiplexer for node.

Pass in multiple files as aguments, and watch them stream all at once in a single window, nicely color coded by log file, or even separated in table-like format for easier reading.

Example commands

Basic usage

splex logs/log-0.log logs/path/log.1 logs/path/log.2

To have a table-like interface, add -t flag:

splex -t logs/log-0.log logs/log-1.log logs/log-2.log

To specify custom colors, eg. alternating yellow and blue:

splex -t -c yellow,blue logs/log-0.log logs/log-1.log logs/log-2.log logs/log-3.log

Monochrome mode is activated by adding -m flag:

splex -tm logs/log-0.log logs/log-1.log logs/log-2.log

.splexrc.json - define list of files per folder

typing splex file_1 file_2 file_X and then log_2 log_3 in other folder can be tedious and quickly becomes painful and repetitive job.

In order to make your life easier you can create .splexrc.json file in folder, with path relative to it, then cd into that folder and just type splex

Here is example content of config file:

{
  "files": [
	  "logs/log-0.log",
	  "logs/log-1.log",
	  "logs/log-2.log",
	  "logs/log-3.log"
  ]	
}