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* initialize `Size` with the then-size of the file when ChangeEvents is called. remember that this function is expected to be called many times, one after another. this also passes the TestReSeekInotify test. * do not ignore errors from os.Stat. we panic errors like these now, but ideally should switch to tomb.Tomb for letting the user handle them. |
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README.md
Go package for tail-ing files
A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD tail program.
t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
for line := range t.Lines {
fmt.Println(line.Text)
}
See API documentation.
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
TODO
- Support arbitrary values for
Location