Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:48:07AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > vitalif@yourcmc.ru:
> >> Because I want logs to be plaintext in my system, not binary.
> >>
> > Why? (Seriously.)
>
> To use standard text based tools, eg. grep.
$ journalctl | grep
$ journalctl | tail -n 500
Note: above is pretty inefficient. Much quicker to rely on the indexes
from journalctl. But it *is* possible.
e.g. efficient is:
$ journalctl -n 500
$ journalctl -f
etc
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Regards,
Olav
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