Add documentation about "tail -f"

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@ -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