github.com/durkenhe/tailf@v0.0.0-20210829070326-d7341c377de4/README.md (about) 1 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail) 2 [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/vrl3paf9md0a7bgk/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Nino-K/tail/branch/master) 3 4 # Go package for tail-ing files 5 6 A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program. 7 8 ```Go 9 t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true}) 10 for line := range t.Lines { 11 fmt.Println(line.Text) 12 } 13 ``` 14 15 See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/hpcloud/tail). 16 17 ## Log rotation 18 19 Tail comes with full support for truncation/move detection as it is 20 designed to work with log rotation tools. 21 22 ## Installing 23 24 go get github.com/hpcloud/tail/... 25 26 ## Windows support 27 28 This package [needs assistance](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows) for full Windows support.