cattail v0.1.0

cattail v0.1.0

Initial public release of cattail, a small multi-file tail utility for log-style files.

Published on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/cattail

Features

• startup glob expansion
• deduped file resolution
• initial backlog display with -n, --lines
• --since-now to skip backlog and follow from the current end
• concurrent per-file follow workers
• per-line source prefixes
• truncation and delete/recreate handling
• notify-backed watching with polling fallback
• dynamic discovery of newly created files matching startup globs
• serialized stdout output

Release Artifacts

• crates.io package: cattail
• README and operator docs included in the repository
• generated man page and shell completions available in the repo under packaging/

Notes

• Newly discovered matching files begin reading from the beginning of their current contents.
• Polling remains part of the recovery path, so latency is bounded by --interval-ms when notify is silent or ambiguous.
• Exact ordering between different files is best effort; per-file ordering is preserved.

Install

cargo install cattail

### Usage

cattail /var/log/syslog /var/log/auth.log
cattail -n 100 '/var/log/*.log'
cattail --since-now --prefix relative '/var/log/*.log'