Multiple tail programme
Chip Rosenthal
chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM
Fri May 3 07:09:16 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr30.054042.14998 at cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>
colemanm at cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Mark Coleman) writes:
>Sorry if this is a FAQ but I'm looking for a version of 'tail' that allows me
>display the updates to files from multiple files.
Checkout the `xtail' program I posted to comp.sources.misc way back when:
v07i108 xtail a kind of "tail -f" for multiple files
As I mention in the distributed notes, my favorite use is:
xtail /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/* /local/spool/smail/log
Note that those are actually directory names. xtail will watch all
the files in them, and will notice when files are created or deleted
there. I always keep an xtail running on one of my 386 XENIX console
screens to monitor the uucp system. It tends to eat about 2% of the
available CPU, which isn't too bad.
By the way, there is one patch which fixes the dependancies in the
Makefile. I can send it out, but it would probably be easier to just
edit the Makefile and remove the `/usr/include' dependancies.
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