Software Archive: xtail

Program:	xtail
Description:	watch the growth of files
Version:	2.1 (05-Jun-2000)

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.

The xtail program has been around for a long time. O'Reilly & Associates even included it in their Unix Power Tools book. A link to the 1989 release is included below. The 3B2 sitting in your cellar would love a copy.

Files

Last Modified	Size	File	Description

05-Jun-2000 00:00:00	26769	xtail.tar.gz	link to current release
26-Jul-2002 20:20:32	1086	xtail-listing.txt	listing of archive contents
26-Jul-2002 20:20:32	1586	README	package README
26-Jul-2002 20:20:32	1661	xtail.1.html	xtail(1) mnaual page

18-Feb-2002 03:30:02	9000	xtail-2.1-1.i386.rpm	contributed by Brandon George
18-Feb-2002 03:30:02	28729	xtail-2.1-1.src.rpm	contributed by Brandon George
18-Feb-2002 03:30:02	4670	xtail-2.1-patch-xterm-title	contributed by Jonathan Fuerth

05-Jun-2000 00:00:00	26769	xtail-2.1.tar.gz	xtail package
01-Jul-1989 00:00:00	10699	xtail-july89.sh.gz	original comp.sources.misc release

Release History

Version 2.1 (05-Jun-2000) - Current release.

$Id: Package.def,v 1.7 2002/07/27 01:23:39 chip Exp $