Posts Tagged ‘logs’

Watch Multiple Logs in a Single Terminal

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by Nick Gauthier

Have you ever opened 4 terminal windows, SSHed each one into a server, and ran tail on all of them to watch 4 log files?

Have you ever had a terminal window open whose sole purpose was to run “tail my_log” over and over again to look at the output of a file?

It’s a pain, isn’t it?

Introducing “Watch Me” a simple ruby script that allows you to watch multiple log files simultaneously.

go from this:

Before Watch Me

Using multiple terminals to watch logs

to this:

Using WatchMe to watch logs

Using WatchMe to watch logs

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