[Gllug] shell-fu to monitor multiple log files simultaneously?

[Joel Bernstein]

On 13 April 2010 10:22, Thomi Richards <thomir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm logging in remotely to a Linux server, on which I would like to
> monitor three separate log files. Currently I open three separate
> shells on my machine, SSH into the target machine three times, and
> then do a "tail -f", and finally arrange the three shells so i can see
> everything at once. What I'm after is a command that lets me achieve
> the same thing - monitor multiple log files with tail, but have them
> arranges in columns / rows within a single terminal. Is this possible?
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Did you try: tail -f file1 file2 file3? That's what I would use.

/joel
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