[Eug-lug] tee's opposite?

[larry price]

or you could just

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



On 8/2/06, Patrick R. Wade <prwade at oip.net> 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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