multitail Command Examples

Extension of tail. More information: https://manned.org/multitail.

• Tail all files matching a pattern in a single stream:

multitail -Q 1 '{{pattern}}'

• Tail all files in a directory in a single stream:

multitail -Q 1 '{{path/to/directory}}/*'

• Automatically add new files to a window:

multitail -Q {{pattern}}

• Show 5 logfiles while merging 2 and put them in 2 columns with only one in the left column:

multitail -s 2 -sn 1,3 {{path/to/mergefile}} -I {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}} {{path/to/file3}} {{path/to/file4}}