Welcome!

Make your log files helpful and beautiful instead of scary and cumbersome.

• Monitor files as they update in real time
• Filter your files by log type or keyword, hiding things you don’t care about
• Continously monitor files by name, whether they exist or not
• All of the above at once!

Installation

Github Releases 🐙

• Go to the Releases tab of the repo here
• Download the latest archive for your OS/architecture
• Extract it and place the resulting binary on your $PATH and ensure it is executable

cd ~/Downloads # Assuming you downloaded it here
tar -xvf campfire_[whatever].tar.gz # x: Extract; v: Verbose output; f: Specify filename
chmod +x campfire # Make file executable
mv campfire [somewhere on your $PATH] # Move the file to somewhere on your path for easy execution

Homebrew 🍺

• Have brew installed (brew.sh)
• Run the following:

brew install --cask daltonsw/tap/campfire

Go 🖥️

• Have Go
• Have your Go install location on your $PATH
• Run the following:

go install go.dalton.dog/campfire@latest

Usage

• Just run campfire [file] with whatever file you want to monitor. That’s it!