Editor/Viewer to display and analyze Maven logs?

Question

I use Maven for building Java projects. The output of Maven has immense size. Is there an editor or log viewer that makes analyzing logs easier?

Answer 1

You can use Baretail, "A free real-time log file monitoring tool"

http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/

Answer 2

less is your friend. You can also tee the output to some file and view that with your favorite editor.

mvn clean package | less
# or
mvn clean package | tee mvn.log
less mvn.log # using less as editor.

Answer 3

I favor this approach. It provides a log, the command run and wall clock time from start to finish.

function m-log
{

  # Build
  echo "mvn $* 2>&1"
  time mvn $* 2>&1 |tee mvn.log
  echo "command mvn $* 2>&1" >> mvn.log
}