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+MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program.
+The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with
+ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard
+has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file.
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+That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging
+of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while displaying 
+the logfiles (through regular expressions), for faster recognition
+of what is important and what not. It can also filter lines (again with regular 
+expressions).  It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions 
+and deleting and adding windows. 
+
+One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. 
+When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the 
+functionality of tools like 'watch' and such.