Tailing logs with color Tail -f

Try this:



tail -f path-to-logs/server.log | perl -pe 's/(.*?)(ERROR|error|.*Exception:)(.*)/$1\e[1;31m$2\e[0m$3/g'


for more colors, items, add more




 | perl -pe 's/(.*?)(yada-yada:)(.*)/$1\e[1;31m$2\e[0m$3/g'




and for other colors:




in \e[1;31m




31 - red

32 - green

33 - yellow

etc