From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <34cf493ae26944869c1f4b427f1d1649@cwru.edu> To: npe@cwru.edu, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple inputs From: glenda@cwru.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-mdfzjxpcxnijonknzzipotkfvt" Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:48:52 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 471322d0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-mdfzjxpcxnijonknzzipotkfvt Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That's pretty close thanks :) I had forgotten the way rc's brackets work. This is what I wanted fn bt { eval '{' `{for (i in $*) echo 'tail -f '$i '&'} '}' } Gives me the behavior I wanted for toc and let's me put my log files together for debugging(i.e. smtp and smtp.fail } Thanks, Noah --upas-mdfzjxpcxnijonknzzipotkfvt Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from mpspam4.TIS.case.Edu (mpspam4.tis.case.Edu [129.22.104.191]) by ims-msg.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPS id <0HVD01B5EUK1BR@ims-msg.cwru.edu> for npe@cwru.edu; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mpspam4.TIS.case.Edu (MOS 3.4.4-GR) id AEE13391 (forwarded by mail filter of npe); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (mirapoint2.TIS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.104.47]) by mpspam4.TIS.case.Edu (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id AEE13389; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.4.3-CR) with ESMTP id ASI28793; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 4F89B19D78; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9F3EC19BE3; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:33:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 02E3C19D78; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:20:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from juice.thebigchoice.com (cpc1-nott2-3-0-cust18.nott.cable.ntl.com [80.4.204.18]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id CA04C19BE3 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:20:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:22:39 +0100 From: matt@proweb.co.uk Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple inputs In-reply-to: <2ed920d1b1e63247052f36a7f1159d7f@cwru.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Errors-to: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Reply-to: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-to: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mirapoint-Loop-ID: bc5d1a6c8d914d521637e4c2f0606a7f X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on psuvax1.cse.psu.edu X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Junkmail-Status: score=5/45, host=mpspam4.TIS.case.Edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 List-Archive: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> Original-recipient: rfc822;npe@spamfree.cwru.edu will this do ? tail -f file1 & tail -f file2 & tail -f file3 & m --upas-mdfzjxpcxnijonknzzipotkfvt--