# colortail mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für colortail in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:colortail
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install colortail
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install colortail
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: colortail from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:colortail
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/colortail>
- **Version:** 0.3.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Like tail(1), but with various colors for specified output
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/joakim666/colortail>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/joakim666/colortail>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/joakim666/colortail/releases/download/0.3.5/colortail-0.3.5.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- colortail (cli)
- colortail (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 0.3.5
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/joakim666/colortail
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Colortail is a Unix log-watching utility that follows files like `tail` while applying colors to lines or line fragments matched by regular expressions.

### Projektgeschichte

Joakim Ek's README says the idea came from watching multiple log files in an IRC session and wanting unusual lines to stand out quickly. Version 0.1 used a simpler wildcard-style configuration, version 0.2 moved to regular expressions, and later patch activity led to a C++ rewrite.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README credits external patches for multicolored lines, FreeBSD and OpenBSD compatibility, Debian packaging, and 64-bit testing. The supplied package-manager metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu, reflecting a small but persistent Unix utility footprint.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `colortail` against one or more log files and pass config files with `-k`; a single config can apply globally, or multiple comma-separated configs can be mapped to multiple tailed files.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Colortail is package-nerd useful because it preserves the mental model of `tail -f` while adding configurable color rules. It predates many modern log viewers and remains a compact example of log highlighting as a Unix filter-style tool.

### Zeitleiste

- 2000s: Initial versions evolved from wildcard matching to regular-expression matching.
- 2009: README for Colortail 0.3.5 carries Joakim Ek copyright notice.
- 2009: README credits Debian packaging and portability patches from contributors.

### Related projects

- Colortail is directly related to `tail`, `regex(7)`, syslog-style log files, and terminal color highlighting tools.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/joakim666/colortail>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joakim666/colortail/master/README>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.colortail/
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** colortail
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - colortail - 0.3.4+git20191125.ad3bc53-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: colortail from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | log colorizer that makes log checking easier | https://github.com/joakim666/colortail
- Ubuntu apt - colortail - 0.3.3-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: colortail from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | log colorizer that makes log checking easier | http://joakimandersson.se/projects/colortail/


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/colortail.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/colortail.yml)


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