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On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their |
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>> content in a text file. If you just run "journalctl" that is the |
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>> equivalent of typing cat /var/log/messages. If you do want to parse |
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>> them with an external tool then you get your choice of several text |
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>> formats and json. |
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> The thing is I never use cat. I invariably use less, rview, or grep, to |
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> browse or search the log files. |
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> How will this work with journalctl, will I have to export them first into a |
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> different format? |
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You can run `journalctl | grep whatever`. I don't know what rview is, |
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but as long as whatever you're using supports pipes you should be fine. |
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