multitail

Extension of tail.

• Tail all files matching a pattern in a single stream:

multitail -Q 1 '{pattern}'

• Tail all files in a directory in a single stream:

multitail -Q 1 '{directory}/*'

• Automatically add new files to a window:

multitail -Q {pattern}

• Show 5 logfiles while merging 2 and put them in 2 columns with only one in the left column:

multitail -s 2 -sn 1,3 {mergefile} -I {file1} {file2} {file3} {file4}

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