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 A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program. 
 
 ```Go
-t := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
+t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
 for line := range t.Lines {
     fmt.Println(line.Text)
 }