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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tailing logs from different files into one single file Post 302871953 by nisav on Thursday 7th of November 2013 12:09:05 PM
Old 11-07-2013
Sorry, I meant to say that tailing all the 4 logs in 4 different windows is not an efective way to verify.

Yes I want to put them in Background and Only tail file.log
Is there a way I can write these tail cmds in one script & execute that script whenever I want

Sorry I am new to this & trying to learn

---------- Post updated at 11:31 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:30 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant
Have you considered multitail ?

Regards
Peasant.
No I haven't. Could you please help me how to ?

---------- Post updated at 12:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:31 AM ----------

Thanks All, the following works the way I want it
Code:
tail -f /Top/Folder1/logfile.log -f /Top/Folder2/logfile.log -f /Top/Folder3/logfile.log -f /Top/Folder4/logfile.log

BUT is there a way to tail all file.log files inside ALL the sub folders under /Top in just one line :

Code:
tail -f  /Top/*/file.log

* --> All subfolders under /Top
Last edited by Scott; 11-07-2013 at 01:12 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please
 

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SCANLOGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SCANLOGS(8)

NAME

       scanlogs - summarize INN log files.

SYNOPSIS

       scanlogs [ norotate ] [ nonn ]

DESCRIPTION

       Scanlogs  summarizes  the information recorded in the INN log files (see newslog(5)).  By default, it also rotates and cleans out the logs.
       It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script.

KEYWORDS

       The following keywords are accepted:

       norotate
	      Using this keyword disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the logs files are only scanned for  information
	      and no contents are altered.

       nonn   Normally the nn log file is scanned and rotated.	Using this keyword disables this function.

       If scanlogs is invoked more than once a day, the ``norotate'' keyword should be used to prevent premature log cleaning.

HISTORY

       Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       innd(8) newslog(5), news.daily(8), nnrpd(8).

																       SCANLOGS(8)
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