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Tail implementation in Go

A Go package striving to emulate the BSD tail program.

t := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
for line := range t.Lines {
    fmt.Println(line.Text)
}

Building

To build and test the package,

make setup
make test

To build the command-line program gotail,

cd cmd/gotail
make
./gotail -h