Colorize CodeIgniter logs. ``` $ ci_color_log_tail /path/to/application/logs/log-2013-01-03.php $ ci_color_log_tail /path/to/application/logs/log-2013-01-03.php 300 #start with 300 lines of log. ```

gistfile1.sh

# This version colors only the keyword at the beginning of the line
ci_color_log_tail() {
  tail -f -n ${2:-100} $1 | awk '{if ($1 == "DEBUG") { c=34 } else if ($1 == "WARNING") { c=32 } else if ($1 == "ERROR") { c=31 } else { c=39 }; printf "\033[1;" c "m%s\033[0m ", $1; for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) printf $i " "; printf "\n"}'
}

# This version colors the entire line.
ci_color_log_tail() {
  tail -f -n ${2:-100} $1 | awk '{if ($1 == "DEBUG") { c=34 } else if ($1 == "WARNING") { c=32 } else if ($1 == "ERROR") { c=31 } else { c=39 }; printf "\033[1;" c "m%s\033[0m\n", $0;}'
}