Chase

An implementation of async and sync file-tailing in Rust for people who care about line numbers.

Goals

• Returns line numbers with each line yielded
• Cross-platform async
• Configurable (which line to start on, delays and retries)
• Easy to use synchronously
• Easy to use asynchronously
  • Can receive data from a standard lib a Channel
  • Can receive data from a Stream from the Futures library

Usage

You can use this tool as a lib and as a binary:

As lib

Some features (e.g. receiving as a Stream, and Serde derive for lib-provided structs) are feature-gated, so keep that in mind when adding as a dependency (refer to Cargo.toml for list of features)

As a binary

cargo install chase --features=binary

Caveats

Windows not yet supported: need to figure out what inodes map to

Credit

Very much inspired by logwatcher