hi.. im trying "tail *" to show all the tail entries of all the files in a directory, but it doesn't work. I have tried "ls | xargs tail" and "tail `ls`" but no hope. When "head *" is working why not "tail * "

try: tail * *slapping myself on forhead* I just saw that you had tried that. I'm surprised it didn't work, it should. It works fine on my OpenBSD box. Sorry for wasting your time....

find . -exec tail -f {} \;

hi tvc.. that doesn't work, since tail -f is used the command doesn't finish. Anyway thanks for the hint, I just modified as below find . -name "*" -exec tail {} \; and it works

You're right, "tail -f" of course will wait until CTRL-C Just "tail" is what you need indeed But, coming back to the opening post, this should work: ls -1 | xargs tail Note the number "1", which means to display only the name of the file, and each on a new line (unlike "ls")