mkdir foo bar sshfs foo.server:foo.dir/ foo/ sshfs bar.server:bar.dir/ bar/ tail -F foo/foo.log bar/bar.log A method that doesn't involve sshfs: serve

mkdir foo bar sshfs foo.server:foo.dir/ foo/ sshfs bar.server:bar.dir/ bar/ tail -F foo/foo.log bar/bar.log A method that doesn't involve sshfs: servers=(foo bar) pipes=("${servers[@]/%/.pipe}") mkfifo "${pipes[@]}" tail -F "${pipes[@]}" & for p in "${pipes[@]}"; do true > "$p" done for s in "${servers[@]}"; do ssh "$s" tail -F file.log > "${s/%/.pipe}" & done %tail There's timing issues on this alternative. I just ran each statement separately in a prompt, and luckily it worked. The first `true` statement needs to run after `tail` has started trying to read the first argument, and once that dies, the second run of `true` needs to run after `tail` starts reading the second argument. Last time I did something like this, I just typed the statements without the loops and ran by hand.