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[](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/HelionCloudFoundry/tail) 
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# Go package for tail-ing files
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A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD `tail` program. 
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```Go
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t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true})
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for line := range t.Lines {
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    fmt.Println(line.Text)
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}
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```
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See [API documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/hpcloud/tail).
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## Log rotation
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Tail comes with full support for truncation/move detection as it is
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designed to work with log rotation tools.
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## Installing
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    go get github.com/hpcloud/tail/...
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## Windows support
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This package [needs assistance](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows) for full Windows support.
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