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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:38:25 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] A simple rc question
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This is a quick attempt at multitail, which does a tail -f on lots of
files, printing the lines from each with the name prepended.

This thing almost works -- except it blocks on each command, not & as
I expect. What did I do wrong?

#!/bin/rc
for(f)
	tail -f $f |  awk '{print "'^$f^':" $0}'&


ron