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		29athrowaway on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tips for analyzing logs Your friends - grep (or ripgrep), sort, uniq, head, tail, cut, colrm, tr - diff - jq - bat - ministat - less, more, percol - Facebook Path Picker (fpp)

arminiusreturns on Dec 14, 2022 | [–]

One of my favorites that I don't see used enough is:

    watch -d -n $INT

Watch for delta changes in interval.

I have lots of bad habits on the cli I should correct, now I'm feeling guilty after reading all the comments.

pdimitar on Dec 14, 2022 | [–]

jless for JSON is very good.

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