On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:20:45PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> 
> > Any interest in having tail follow multiple files?
> 
> pkgsrc/misc/xtail works well.  For example, it notices when a file
> is removed and reopened, which works well for log files.

'tail -F' will also notice a file being unlinked and recreated.
You don't want this to be the default behaviour as it is expensive.

Since tail only processes a single file at a time, tail -f on multple
files just doesn't make sense.
If you want the merged output from many files just run multiple copies
of tail -f in the background....

	David

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