diff --git a/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.html b/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.html
index 6c5c3c028..658d61da9 100644
--- a/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.html
+++ b/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.html
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="tail">
-	<p>Tails (watches for things to be added) to the configured file. (Linux/Mac ONLY)</p>
-	<p>This won't work on Windows filesystems (as it relies on the tail -f command) so we will probably have to hide it in future.</p>
+    <p>Tails (watches for things to be added) to the configured file. (Linux/Mac ONLY)</p>
+    <p>This won't work on Windows filesystems (as it relies on the tail -F command) so we will probably have to hide it in future.</p>
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
diff --git a/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js b/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js
index fc176f6c5..a4bd2dfaf 100644
--- a/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js
+++ b/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
         var node = this;
 
         var err = "";
-        var tail = spawn("tail", ["-f", this.filename]);
+        var tail = spawn("tail", ["-F", this.filename]);
         tail.stdout.on("data", function (data) {
             var msg = {topic:node.filename};
             if (node.split) {