<term><option>--full</option></term>
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- <para>Do not ellipsize unit names, process tree entries, and
- truncate unit descriptions in the output of
- <command>list-units</command> and
- <command>list-jobs</command>.</para>
+ <para>Do not ellipsize unit names, process tree entries,
+ journal output, or truncate unit descriptions in the output
+ of <command>status</command>, <command>list-units</command>,
+ <command>list-jobs</command>, and
+ <command>list-timers</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
sleep state. Any user may take these locks and privileged
users may override these locks. If any locks are taken,
shutdown and sleep state requests will normally fail
- (regardless if privileged or not) and a list of active locks
+ (regardless of whether privileged or not) and a list of active locks
is printed. However, if <option>--ignore-inhibitors</option>
is specified, the locks are ignored and not printed, and the
operation attempted anyway, possibly requiring additional
with identical immediate effects, however, since the latter
is lost on reboot, the changes are lost too.</para>
- <para>Similar, when used with
+ <para>Similarly, when used with
<command>set-property</command>, make changes only
temporarily, so that they are lost on the next
reboot.</para>
belongs to.</para>
<para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
- output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output, use
- <command>show</command> instead.</para>
+ output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
+ use <command>show</command> instead. By default this
+ function only shows 10 lines of output and ellipsizes
+ lines to fit in the terminal window. This can be changes
+ with <option>--lines</option> and <option>--full</option>,
+ see above. In addition, <command>journalctl
+ --unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> or
+ <command>journalctl
+ --user-unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> use
+ a similar filter for messages and might be more
+ convenient.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>