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# Go package for tail-ing files
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A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program.
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```Go
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t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
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for line := range t.Lines {
fmt.Println(line.Text)
}
```
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See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/ActiveState/tail).
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## Installing
go get github.com/ActiveState/tail
## Building
To build and test the package,
make test
To build the toy command-line program `gotail`,
cd cmd/gotail
make
./gotail -h
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## TODO
* Support arbitrary values for `Location`