Feature request: Add support to tail stdin

[00cpxxx]

Hi, thanks for this very useful package. I have been using it for some tests and I would like to now if it is possible to expand it to support reading input from stdin instead of a file. This would allow to instead of doing:

./program > log.txt
node tail.js log.txt

To simply do:

./program | node tail.js

This would avoid disk writing.

I'm not a Node programmer so I don't know how to change the code to add such support, and I tried looking for solutions to this but could not find anything as nice as node-tail.

[lucagrulla]

hi @00cpxxx ,

Thanks for youe feature request.

Is there anything that stops you to use your shell tail?

./ program  | tail

No need to use a node library here, bash (or whatever shell you like to use) already supports your use case.

[00cpxxx]

Thanks for the reply. I'm using your package to feed a websocket and show contents in a browser in another location.