Can it do the following? I have a dev server which is spitting lots of logs and I want to interactively search the logs with something like `fzf`. No changes can be made to the dev server.
If there is some dynamic pattern in the logs that repeats (or that you can cause to repeat by executing some test steps on the software which produces the logs), you may be able to use pw to latch on to that pattern.
E.g. suppose there is detailed function enter/leave tracing in the log. You can discover that certain functions are traced when you do something, and then filter for that material to remove unrelated spewage, and perhaps set up a trigger to capture the scenario you are reproducing.
Once you know that, you can use other tools to find the same thing. You know what to look for in off-line analysis of a complete log.
This is not just for logs. If you pipe
tcpdump -i <eth> -l | pw
E.g. add:
:g thishost.*>.*thathost
alias lzf="fzf +s --tac --bind 'enter:select-all+accept' -m"