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