journal as written by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
- <para>If called without parameter will show the full
+ <para>If called without parameter it will show the full
contents of the journal, starting with the oldest
entry collected.</para>
pager.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--full</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show all (printable) fields in
+ full.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--all</option></term>
<term><option>-a</option></term>
<term><option>--follow</option></term>
<term><option>-f</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Show only most recent
+ <listitem><para>Show only the most recent
journal entries, and continuously print
new entries as they are appended to
the journal.</para></listitem>
<term><option>--lines=</option></term>
<term><option>-n</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Controls the number of
- journal lines to show, counting from
- the most recent ones. Takes a positive
- integer argument. In follow mode
- defaults to 10, otherwise is unset
- thus not limiting how many lines are
- shown.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Show the most recent
+ journal events and limit the number of
+ events shown. If
+ <option>--follow</option> is used,
+ this option is implied. The argument,
+ a positive integer, is optional, and
+ defaults to 10. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<literal>export</literal>,
<literal>json</literal>,
<literal>json-pretty</literal>,
+ <literal>json-sse</literal>,
<literal>cat</literal>. <literal>short</literal>
is the default and generates an output
that is mostly identical to the
information). <literal>json</literal>
formats entries as JSON data
structures, one per
- line. <literal>json-pretty</literal>
+ line (see <ulink
+ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/json">Journal
+ JSON Format</ulink> for more
+ information). <literal>json-pretty</literal>
also formats entries as JSON data
structures, but formats them in
multiple lines in order to make them
more readable for
- humans. <literal>cat</literal>
+ humans. <literal>json-sse</literal>
+ also formats entries as JSON data
+ structures, but wraps them in a format
+ suitable for <ulink
+ url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events">Server-Sent
+ Events</ulink>. <literal>cat</literal>
generates a very terse output only
showing the actual message of each
journal entry with no meta data, not
even a timestamp.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--catalog</option></term>
+ <term><option>-x</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Augment log lines with
+ explanation texts from the message
+ catalog. This will add explanatory
+ help texts to log messages in the
+ output where this is available. These
+ short help texts will explain the
+ context of an error or log event,
+ possible solutions, as well as
+ pointers to support forums, developer
+ documentation and any other relevant
+ manuals. Note that help texts are not
+ available for all messages, but only
+ for selected ones. For more
+ information on the message catalog
+ please refer to the <ulink
+ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog">Message
+ Catalog Developer
+ Documentation</ulink>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<term><option>-q</option></term>
<term><option>-b</option></term>
<listitem><para>Show data only from
- current boot.</para></listitem>
+ current boot. This will add a match
+ for <literal>_BOOT_ID=</literal> for
+ the current boot ID of the
+ kernel.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
- <term><option>-D</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Takes an absolute
- directory path as argument. If
- specified will operate on the
- specified journal directory instead of
- the default runtime and system journal
- paths.</para></listitem>
+ <term><option>--unit=</option></term>
+ <term><option>-u</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show data only of the
+ specified unit. This will add a match
+ for <literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</literal>
+ for the specified
+ unit.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<literal>info</literal> (6),
<literal>debug</literal> (7). If a
single log level is specified all
- messages with this log levels or a
+ messages with this log level or a
lower (hence more important) log level
are shown. If a range is specified all
messages within the range are shown,
including both the start and the end
- value of the range.</para></listitem>
+ value of the range. This will add
+ <literal>PRIORITY=</literal> matches
+ for the specified
+ priorities.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--cursor=</option></term>
+ <term><option>-c</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+ from the location in the journal
+ specified by the passed
+ cursor.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--since=</option></term>
+ <term><option>--until=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+ on or newer than the specified date,
+ or on or older than the specified
+ date, respectively. Date specifications should be of
+ the format "2012-10-30 18:17:16". If
+ the time part is omitted, 00:00:00 is
+ assumed. If only the seconds component
+ is omitted, :00 is assumed. If the
+ date component is ommitted, the
+ current day is assumed. Alternatively
+ the strings
+ <literal>yesterday</literal>,
+ <literal>today</literal>,
+ <literal>tomorrow</literal> are
+ understood, which refer to 00:00:00 of
+ the day before the current day, the
+ current day, or the day after the
+ current day, respectively. <literal>now</literal>
+ refers to the current time. Finally,
+ relative times may be specified,
+ prefixed with <literal>-</literal> or
+ <literal>+</literal>, referring to
+ times before or after the current
+ time, respectively.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--field=</option></term>
+ <term><option>-F</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Print all possible
+ data values the specified field can
+ take in all entries of the
+ journal.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
+ <term><option>-D</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Takes an absolute
+ directory path as argument. If
+ specified journalctl will operate on the
+ specified journal directory instead of
+ the default runtime and system journal
+ paths.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Instead of showing
journal contents show internal header
- information of the journal fiels
+ information of the journal fields
accessed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
journal files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--list-catalog</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>List the contents of
+ the message catalog, as table of
+ message IDs plus their short
+ description strings.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--update-catalog</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Update the message
+ catalog index. This command needs to
+ be executed each time new catalog
+ files are installed, removed or
+ updated to rebuild the binary catalog
+ index.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--setup-keys</option></term>
<programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dbus.service</programlisting>
<para>If the separator "<literal>+</literal>" is used
- two expression may be combined in a logical OR. The
+ two expressions may be combined in a logical OR. The
following will show all messages from the Avahi
service process with the PID 28097 plus all messages
from the D-Bus service (from any of its
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