Native module for node.js .
Read new line in real time, as 'tail - f'.
npm install tailnative
or
git clone git://github.com/whitesheep/node-tail-native.git
cd node-tail-native
node-gyp configure build
Tailnative, from 0.3 version, support line separator
new Tail(filename, "\r\n");
Event emits:
data function(data){}
end function(){}
error function(error){}
Example code :
var Tail = require("tailnative");
var lineseparator = "\n";
var tail = new Tail(__dirname + "/testfile", lineseparator);
tail.on('data', function(data){
console.log(this.file + ': ' + data);
});
tail.on('error', function(){
console.log('error');
tail.close();
});
tail.on('end', function(){
console.log('end');
});