Which Command Is Used to View Multiple Files at the Same Time in Unix?
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The cat (short for “concatenate“) command is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux/Unix-like operating systems. cat command allows us to create single or multiple files, view content of a file, concatenate files and redirect output in terminal or files.

Which command is used to view multiple files at the same time?

What is MultiTail? MultiTail is an open source ncurses utility that can be used to display multiple logfiles to standard output in a single window or a single shell that shows last few lines of logfiles in a real-time like tail command which split console into more subwindows (much like screen command).

How do I view multiple files in Linux?

If you have for example /var/log/syslog , /var/log/auth. log log files, you can view them both in one terminal by executing tail -f command . Usage: multitail <filename1> <filename2> . So the output will be part of file1 and part of file2 in the same terminal.

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