filenotify

FileNotify

Watchs a file and emits a 'data' event when new data/lines is saved to the watched file

Install

npm install filenotify

Usage

var FileNotify = require('filenotify');
var watcher = new FileNotify('/path/to/file');

watcher.on('data', function(data) {
  // data is the new line(s)
});

// Pause events
watcher.pause();

// Resume events (after pause)
watcher.resume();

// Stop
watcher.destroy();

// Start (after destroy)
watcher.start();

// Destroy after empting paused queue
watcher.destroySoon();