https://github.com/hpcloud/tail

Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f)
https://github.com/hpcloud/tail

Last synced: 3 months ago
JSON representation

Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hpcloud/tail
• Owner: hpcloud
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-02-05T00:28:03.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-25T19:40:21.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-21T04:14:55.207Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 255 KB
• Stars: 2,678
• Watchers: 99
• Forks: 501
• Open Issues: 74
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

Awesome Lists containing this project

• awesome-go - tail - Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD tail program. (Logging / Search and Analytic Databases)
• my-awesome - hpcloud/tail - 10 star:2.7k fork:0.5k Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f) (Go)
• awesome-go - tail - Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD tail program. Stars:`2.7K`. (Logging / Search and Analytic Databases)
• awesome-go - tail - Go package for reading from continously updated files (tail -f) - ★ 1236 (Logging)
• awesome-go-extra - tail - f)|2404|477|73|2013-02-05T00:28:03Z|2022-03-23T02:34:51Z| (Logging / Advanced Console UIs)
• awesome-go-zh - tail

README

        
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail)

[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/vrl3paf9md0a7bgk/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Nino-K/tail/branch/master)

# Go package for tail-ing files

A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program. 

```Go

t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})

for line := range t.Lines {

    fmt.Println(line.Text)

}

```

See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/hpcloud/tail).

## Log rotation

Tail comes with full support for truncation/move detection as it is

designed to work with log rotation tools.

## Installing

    go get github.com/hpcloud/tail/...

## Windows support

This package [needs assistance](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows) for full Windows support.