[](https://travis-ci.org/hpcloud/tail) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/HelionCloudFoundry/tail) # 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.