xtail watches the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. My favorite usage is: xtail /var/log/* You can specify both filenames and directories on the command line. If you specify a directory, it watches all the files in that directory. It will notice when new files are created (and start watching them) or when old files are deleted (and stop watching them). The version 2.1 release fixes a Y2K bug, replaces the fixed-length file list with a dynamically allocated one, and implements package configuration with GNU autoconf.
xtail watches the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. My favorite usage is: xtail /var/log/* You can specify both filenames and directories on the command line. If you specify a directory, it watches all the files in that directory. It will notice when new files are created (and start watching them) or when old files are deleted (and stop watching them). The version 2.1 release fixes a Y2K bug, replaces the fixed-length file list with a dynamically allocated one, and implements package configuration with GNU autoconf.
To install xtail, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install xtail
To see what files were installed by xtail, run:
port contents xtail
To later upgrade xtail, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade xtail
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