https://github.com/jakewharton/pidcat

Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package.
https://github.com/jakewharton/pidcat

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Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jakewharton/pidcat
• Owner: JakeWharton
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2013-06-12T05:59:37.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-10T13:57:53.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T23:19:58.267Z (24 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 3.67 MB
• Stars: 4,824
• Watchers: 112
• Forks: 497
• Open Issues: 67
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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PID Cat

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An update to Jeff Sharkey's excellent [logcat color script][1] which only shows

log entries for processes from a specific application package.

During application development you often want to only display log messages

coming from your app. Unfortunately, because the process ID changes every time

you deploy to the phone it becomes a challenge to grep for the right thing.

This script solves that problem by filtering by application package. Supply the

target package as the sole argument to the python script and enjoy a more

convenient development process.

    pidcat com.oprah.bees.android

Here is an example of the output when running for the Google Plus app:

![Example screen](screen.png)

Install

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Get the script:

 *  OS X: Use [Homebrew][2].

         brew install pidcat

    If you need to install the latest development version

        brew unlink pidcat

        brew install --HEAD pidcat

 * Arch Linux : Install the package called `pidcat-git` from the [AUR][4].

 * Others: Download the `pidcat.py` and place it on your PATH.

Make sure that `adb` from the [Android SDK][3] is on your PATH. This script will

not work unless this is that case. That means, when you type `adb` and press

enter into your terminal something actually happens.

To include `adb` and other android tools on your path:

    export PATH=$PATH:/platform-tools

    export PATH=$PATH:/tools

Include these lines in your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc`.

*Note:* `` should be absolute and not relative.

`pidcat` requires at least version 8.30 of `coreutils`. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS already ships

with it, for 18.04 and below, `coreutils` can be upgraded from the `focal` repo by running

the following:

```shell

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -t focal install coreutils

```

 [1]: http://jsharkey.org/blog/2009/04/22/modifying-the-android-logcat-stream-for-full-color-debugging/

 [2]: http://brew.sh

 [3]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/

 [4]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pidcat-git/