Yata is a general purpose log viewer and file monitor with a nice pretty GUI. "Yata" is an acronym for "Yet Another Tail Application", so named because of its focus on viewing logs in real time (similar to what one might use "tail -f" on the unix command line for). Another possible rendering of "yata" is "Yata Ain't TAil!", for yata does not just replicate the functionality of the unix tail command in a GUI. For instance, here is a short list of current features:

• Ability to open large files quickly, and fast scrolling to anywhere in the file
• Searching and highlighting by regular expression
• Viewing real-time changes to a file, with or without highlighting

Yata is based on Qt 5.10.0 (or greater) and yaml-cpp 0.5.x. Currently targeted platforms are Linux and Windows.

🎉🎉 Thank you very much for any contribution to Yata!

You will find all information needed to get started within the README.md (this file) and the CONTRIBUTING.md. Additionally this project adheres to the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to the e-mail address listed in Code of Conduct.

• Ensure yaml-cpp is built and installed in a standard place (i.e., /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib). Instructions for building yaml-cpp are in its source package.
• Ensure that development libraries for Qt are installed. Qt4 is available in the repositories of most major Linux distributions. For example, on Ubuntu, you would run the following command on a terminal: sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
• Change to the root of the yata source tree and run the following commands: qmake make make install Note that you may need to be root to run the last command.

By default, yata will install to /usr/local/bin. To change the default, specify the desired directory with INSTALLDIR as an argument to qmake. For example, to install to /usr/bin, use: qmake INSTALLDIR=/usr/bin

The easiest way to build on Windows is to obtain the open source Qt SDK from http://qt.nokia.com. (This will give you the Qt toolkit, plus MinGW, a version of GNU gcc for windows. You will still need to download yaml-cpp from code.google.com/p/yaml-cpp.) Here are the steps:

• Ensure yaml-cpp is built and installed. (You will need to download cmake for windows for this step.) Make a note of where the libraries and headers are installed.
• Open a command window, or open Qt Creator. (The rest of the directions assumes the command line.)
• Change to the root of the yata source tree and run qmake. Depending on where yaml-cpp is installed, you may need to specify its path. By default, qmake will look for yaml-cpp one directory up from where yata's source tree is. If you have installed it elsewhere, you should set the YAML-CPP variable on the command line. For instance, if yaml-cpp is installed in C:\yaml-cpp, you would run qmake like this: qmake YAML-CPP=C:/yaml-cpp Note that you should use forward slashes ("/") for directory separators, not backslashes ("").
• Run this command: mingw32-make release

Note that you may need to add the directories in which qmake and mingw32-make are located to your %PATH% environment variable in order for the commands to succeed.