wildcard expansion for multiple files in config

README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,28 @@
-## logtail
+## logtail: tail -f logfiles in the browser with websockets
 
-NB: incomplete hack!
-
-tail -f logfiles in browser using websockets
+*NB: incomplete hack!*
 
+### How to build and run
+```
 $ rebar get-deps
 $ ./start-dev.sh
+```
+
+Now visit http://localhost:9090/index.html 
+
+(still need to make cowboy treat / as /index.html)
+
+### Configuration
+
+Add entries to the sources section in app.config:
+
+*Single file*
+```
+{file, "/path/to/file.log", []}
+```
+
+*Multiple files, wildcard expansion*
+```
+{files, "/var/log/*", []}
+```
 
-http://localhost:9090/index.html (still need to make cowboy treat / as /index.html)

priv/index.html

@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@
   padding: 1em;
 }
 
+div.source {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
 @media screen
 {
   body>div#fixedbox

src/logtail_mgr.erl

@@ -165,4 +165,15 @@ start_tailer({file, Path, Opts}) when is_list(Path), is_list(Opts) ->
         _ ->
             lager:info("starting tailer for {file, ~s}", [Path]),
             supervisor:start_child(logtail_tailer_sup, [{file, Path, Opts}])
-    end.
+    end;
+
+start_tailer({files, Path}) -> 
+    start_tailer({files, Path, []});
+
+start_tailer({files, Path, Opts}) when is_list(Path), is_list(Opts) ->
+    lists:foreach(fun(P) ->
+        start_tailer({file, P, Opts})
+    end, filelib:wildcard(Path)).
+
+
+