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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting tail -f for multiple files Post 302507803 by un1xl0ver_rwx on Thursday 24th of March 2011 10:12:43 PM
Old 03-24-2011
CPU & Memory tail -f for multiple files

Is there a way to view the log progress from multiple files.

For eg: I have 10 log files from 10 different instances. Instead of opening 10 terminal and doing tail -f on each, is it possible to view all the log changes in one tail -f?
Say I have file1,file2 .. file10

I have tried
Code:
tail -f file*

No luckSmilie

This is showing only the first log progress.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by un1xl0ver_rwx; 03-25-2011 at 12:48 AM..
 

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