or you could just

tail -f /var/log/log.1 /var/log/log.2



On 8/2/06, Patrick R. Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote:
> Is there a way to tail 2 files at the same time?
>
> I remembered tee had something to do with this but it does the opposite
> of what I want -- 1 input, multiple outputs.
>
> I want multiple inputs, 1 output (filtered through tail).

What about cat?

$ cat foo bar baz | tail # yields bottom of total output

or do you mean you want multiple columns:

---------------------------------------------------------------
tail of foo in this column  | tail of bar in this column | etc

for that, might try column(1) or paste(1).

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