bin/75028: [patch] when following multiple files, tail(1)
Mikhail Teterin
mi at corbulon.video-collage.com
Thu Jan 13 15:13:34 PST 2005
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75028
> >
> > I think, there should also be a way to suppress the outputting of
> > file-names completely. Perhaps, with another option (-H?). For example,
> > when watching web-server logs, I rarely care, which of the virtual
> > servers log what.
> >
> > -mi
>
> Isnt' that more a case of just tailing each file as a separate tail
> process?
Separate tail(s) are not only (slightly) more resource consuming,
they also can not neatly cooperate in one window. The change I'm
talking about requires about three lines -- two of them in the
options-parsing area :-) Yours,
-mi
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