From a9ec5c063a9f296f50f94ed4c5a815306eee6b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:54:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation about "tail -f"

---
 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 56678bd0..dc22cb8a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,6 +105,15 @@ If you happen to use [`fd`](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat), you can use the `-X
 fd … -X bat
 ```
 
+#### `tail -f`
+
+`bat` can be combined with `tail -f` to continuously monitor a given file with syntax highlighting.
+```bash
+tail -f /var/log/pacman.log | bat --paging=never -l log
+```
+Note that we have to switch off paging in order for this to work. We have also specified the syntax
+explicitly (`-l log`), as it can not be auto-detected in this case.
+
 ## Installation
 
 ### On Ubuntu