few

few is a program to interactively filter log files with regular expressions and show the result on the text mode console (terminal). few is similar to the less program, but has the ability to filter what is displayed with regular expressions. few is currently supported on Unix like operating system and Windows. few is a console application running in a text mode terminal window.

few is using the native C++ regular expression library which provides the ECMAScript (javascript) syntax for regular expressions. They are similar to the commonly known perl or python syntaxes for regular expressions. A nice website to learn about writing regular expressions is Debuggex.

Documentation

Study the README and TODO files for currently implemented and planned features of few. The file INSTALL contains information how to build the program from the source code.

Source Code

The source code is hosted on the Github project page of few. If we have reached a stable point in the development we'll provide archives to download the source code on this webpage. For now, please go to Github and clone the source code to build your own version of few.

Contact

Write an email to Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org> for questions and suggestions about the few program.