php-multitail is a small utility script to tail a bunch of files and display the results compactly. I wrote it because I thought tail's builtin output format for multiple files was unusable.

Example output from my server logs: ooo: 217.69.133.68 - - [05/Jul/2013:00:51:25 +0300] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Linux x86_64; Mail.RU_Bot/2.0; +http://go.mail.ru/help/robots)" stuff: 66.249.75.31 - - [05/Jul/2013:04:11:08 +0300] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 47 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" stuff: 66.249.75.31 - - [05/Jul/2013:04:11:08 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"