carve

carve is a terminal-focused tool for interactively searching and exploring text files and logs. It provides a user-friendly interface for real-time text analysis with features like live tailing, searching, and filtering.

Note: This project is currently experimental. It only supports Unix-like systems and it's performance may be underwhelming on anything but trivial log sizes at this time. Please report any issues or bugs on GitHub: https://github.com/deej-io/carve

Features

• Interactive TUI Terminal User Interface
• Real-time file tailing
• Live search with match highlighting
• Filter expressions
• Multiple operation modes:
  • Normal mode: Manual scrolling and navigation
  • Search mode: Interactive text search
  • Filter mode: Apply filters to displayed content

Installation

To install carve, you'll need Rust and Cargo installed on your system. Then run:

cargo install carve

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/deej-io/carve
cd carve
cargo build --release

Usage

Basic usage:

# Pipe command output into carve, interactively searching and filtering it before storing the result
node serve.js | carve > filtered-log.txt

Keyboard Controls

• Normal Mode:

  • Arrow keys / j/k: Scroll up/down
  • /: Enter filter mode
  • f: Enter searc mode
  • q: Quit

• Search Mode:

  • Enter: Execute search
  • n: Next match
  • N: Previous match
  • Esc: Return to normal mode

• Filter Mode:

  • Enter: Apply filter
  • Esc: Return to normal mode

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Daniel J Rollins me@deej.io

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.