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Tail replacement - allows an entire directory of logs to be watched.

3 pointsby igorhvrover 15 years ago

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igorhvrover 15 years ago
I found myself using this each day more. If you want to watch everything that happens inside a directory (merged into a single window) - like I always do, you will need a command similar to:<p><pre><code> multitail --mergeall -f -iw "apache-tomcat-6.0.18/logs/*" 1 </code></pre> Multitail is smart enough to figure out if files were erased/created/re-created etc - on the fly. This saves quite a bit of time for me. Since I only heard of this recently, I figured it might be a good idea to spread the word...<p>The software is a big buggy, but I still like it a lot.