Took a crack at adding this option, as per Freek's tweet: https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/1031241488427114496

Let me know if you'd like to see any changes!

I recently began using exa to replace ls. To make the switch easier, I aliased ls:

$ which ls
ls: aliased to exa --icons --classify --header --git

As a result, the command this package uses to get the latest log file (ls -t) throws an error instead of listing the sorted files:

$ ls -t
exa: Flag -t needs a value (choices: modified, changed, accessed, created)
To sort newest files last, try "--sort newest", or just "-snew"

The package uses the ls, head, tail, and grep shell commands, and they all could potentially be aliased/overwritten on the user's system. This could break the package, and there is no way of knowing because the output is suppressed:

This PR simply adds backslashes to the beginning of each shell command so that aliases are ignored and the native shell commands are used instead.

I can manually specify the escaped command with --file to get it to work, but it's janky and you'll only know to do it this way if you know why it's throwing the error in the first place:

php artisan tail --file="\`\\ls -t | \\head -1\`"

Thanks!

Hopefully this one does the trick!

As mentioned in the comments of the previous PR, there seems to be a slight limitation when mixing the --lines & --hide-stack-traces options. What seems to happen is tail -n [num] selects the log file lines before the filter is applied, so when using tail -n 50, for example, fewer lines might be output because the stack traces will be filtered from those 50 lines.

Perhaps someone else can find a way around this, but I don't know if it's possible natively using tail's own options.

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This PR seeks to resolve the error encountered in #7 with Laravel 5.4

I am not 100% sure if this is the best possible fix, but it follows the way that Laravel Dusk does its registration and it works on my Laravel 5.4 install.

Let me know how this looks!

Cheers :)

I've had a number of instances where I needed to tail a specific log file (for example, I log third-party API calls to a different file for each service). This PR adds a --file option that lets you specify the file that you want to tail, rather than only being able to see the last-modified file in the directory.

The relevant test was added, and I updated the readme to describe the use case and usage. I also added a config value to allow the file to specified per-environment (optional, of course).

Please let me know any feedback or requested changes. Thank you!

Without the equal sign I get an error The "--grep" option does not accept a value. But the tests still pass which is incorrect.

From Laravel Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/artisan#options-with-values

Next, let's take a look at an option that expects a value. If the user must specify a value for an option, suffix the option name with a = sign:

Composer.json file still had references to 5.5-dev that is preventing installation.

Updated to:

    "require": {
        "php" : "^7.0",
        "illuminate/support": "^5.5",
        "illuminate/console": "^5.5",
        "symfony/process": "^3.3"
    },