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The Decider said over 2 years ago permalink Comment? (0)
Tagged: log rails less

less is more

Use less to view your logs.


 less log/development.log

What? it looks ugly? with weird escape characters and such…?

Try this:


 less -r log/development.log

Why? Well if you have a large log file then it could take a while to load it into an editor and ‘less’ is smarter than that… Search using normal vi commands: / and ?

Move around in the file using SPACE, j,k,l,; or the arrow keys. g gets you to the top of the file and G gets you to the bottom.

h is help and as always RTFM, man less