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Tail More Than One File at a Time

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Juliet Kemp
Jul 22, 2009

“It colorizes them, making viewing much easier. MultiTail is
available as a package for most distros, and you can also install
it from source.

“By default MultiTail does the same thing as tail -f, i.e.
watches files in real time. To watch two files at once, the basic
usage is:

multitail /var/log/messages /var/log/auth.log

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