Display changes in several files simultaneously

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If there is a need to enable the display of saved data at the same time as log files, you do not need to run several consoles - you can include them all in tail -f.

Recently, it was useful for me in the case of system logs when the server restarted several minutes after the restart and we want to see what is happening immediately before it.:

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tail -f /var/log/{messages,kern.log,daemon.log,syslog}

Of course, if restarts are random, it is worth implementing error logging to an external server, but in many cases this method is sufficient.

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