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If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e close_write --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do cat < "$file" done 

The only problem then is what to do if an excessive number of tail processes are started...

If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e close_write --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do cat < "$file" done 

If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e close_write --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do cat -f -- "$file" done 

The only problem then is what to do if an excessive number of tail processes are started...

If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e close_write --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do cat < "$file" done 

The only problem then is what to do if an excessive number of tail processes are started...

If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e create --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do tail -f -- "$file" & done 

The only problem then is what to do if an excessive number of tail processes are started...

If on Linux, something like this should do what you are looking for:

inotifywait -m -e close_write --format %w%f -r /watch/dir | while IFS= read -r file do cat -f -- "$file" done 

The only problem then is what to do if an excessive number of tail processes are started...