All, I was wondering how easy would it be to alter tail so that it looks for new files that match a certain pattern every few seconds to tail?
I have an application where several temp files are created, and I don't know what they are in advance, eg: /tmp/newlog.$$ would create /tmp/newlog.2432, etc. which then could be tailed by tail -f /tmp/newlog --pat would tail all files that started with /tmp/newlog.. Again, how easy would this be to implement, or is it already implemented? Thanks much, Ed
