2019-12-05 22:36:59 +01:00
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<script type="text/html" data-help-name="tail">
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2019-12-05 22:18:59 +01:00
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<p>Tails (watches for things to be added) to the configured file.</p>
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<p>Note: On Windows you may need to close the file between writes for any updates to be registered.</p>
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<h3>Input</h3>
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<dl class="message-properties">
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<dt class="optional">filename <span class="property-type">string</span></dt>
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<dd>If not configured in the node, this optional property sets the name of the file to be tailed.
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If an empty string <code>""</code> is received, the tailing will stop.</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3>Outputs</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Text (UTF-8) files will be returned as strings.</li>
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<li>Binary files will be returned as Buffer objects.</li>
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</ul>
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</script>
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