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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
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var (
ErrStop = fmt.Errorf("tail should now stop")
)
Functions ¶
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Types ¶
type Config ¶
type Config struct {
Location int // Tail from last N lines (tail -n)
Follow bool // Continue looking for new lines (tail -f)
ReOpen bool // Reopen recreated files (tail -F)
MustExist bool // Fail early if the file does not exist
Poll bool // Poll for file changes instead of using inotify
MaxLineSize int // If non-zero, split longer lines into multiple lines
}
Tail configuration
type Tail ¶
type Tail struct {
Filename string
Lines chan *Line
Config
tomb.Tomb // provides: Done, Kill, Dying
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
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