tail-fs-readable

A readable stream to tail a file.

Works with files

• not existing yet
• deleted meanwhile
• reduced meanwhile
• appended meanwhile

install

npm i @mh-cbon/tail-fs-readable --save

Usage

var tailFs = require('@mh-cbon/tail-fs-readable');

var stream = tailFs('somefile')
.on('data', function (d) {
  console.log('DATA %s', d.toString())
})
.on('end', function () {
  console.log('END')
})
.on('reached-end', function () {
  console.log('REACHED END')
})
.on('close', function () {
  console.log('CLOSE')
});

stream.pipe(process.stdout);

setTimeout(function () {
  stream.close();
}, 1500)

Options

touchToRefresh

if true, tail-fs-readable will consider the file as completely changed if its mtime is different, but the size is identical.

if false, tail-fs-readable will not be able to detect a modified file with a different content, but the same size.

It s about this particular case :

echo "some" > tailed.txt
echo "else" > tailed.txt

As a binary

npm i @mh-cbon/tail-fs-readable -g
tailf some.txt
  ctrl+c to quit