Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Multiple tail programme Keywords: tail, file viewing Message-ID: <1976@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 2 May 91 21:09:16 GMT References: <1991Apr30.054042.14998@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX Lines: 27 In article <1991Apr30.054042.14998@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> colemanm@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. -- Chip Rosenthal 512-482-8260 | Unicom Systems Development | I saw Elvis in my wtmp file. |