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Tail replacement - allows an entire directory of logs to be watched. (vanheusden.com)
3 points by igorhvr on Feb 16, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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:

   multitail --mergeall -f -iw "apache-tomcat-6.0.18/logs/*" 1
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...

The software is a big buggy, but I still like it a lot.




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