1[](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail) 2[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/HelionCloudFoundry/tail) 3 4# Go package for tail-ing files 5 6A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program. 7 8```Go 9t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true}) 10for line := range t.Lines { 11 fmt.Println(line.Text) 12} 13``` 14 15See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/hpcloud/tail). 16 17## Log rotation 18 19Tail comes with full support for truncation/move detection as it is 20designed to work with log rotation tools. 21 22## Installing 23 24 go get github.com/hpcloud/tail/... 25 26## Windows support 27 28This package [needs assistance](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows) for full Windows support. 29
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