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