Filter the Tail PiHole Log

yubiuser · July 3, 2021, 4:26pm

This PR will add the possibility to use pihole -t [arg] to grep for arg at the command line and preserve the colored output

github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

Filter pihole -t

pi-hole:development ← yubiuser:fiter_pihole_t

opened 08:09PM - 04 Jun 21 UTC

yubiuser

+6 -3

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yubiuser · September 12, 2021, 6:36am

This has been implemented in the latest version of Pi-hole