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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-04-30 14:53:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-05-05 09:22:27 +0200 |
| commit | e0e3d387268f5e1b6692c3bb3730ff349528927b (patch) | |
| tree | 0850dbb74c4a42f3af7d293d790c584426b2dde5 /man/journalctl.xml | |
| parent | 4d5d1bba731f7dabc4511abce305584d769dfe60 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-e0e3d387268f5e1b6692c3bb3730ff349528927b.tar.gz | |
man: document the new -o cat feature
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/journalctl.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index d6d475ed97..6e4728b013 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -374,9 +374,10 @@ <option>cat</option> </term> <listitem> - <para>generates a very terse output, only showing the - actual message of each journal entry with no metadata, - not even a timestamp.</para> + <para>generates a very terse output, only showing the actual message of each journal entry + with no metadata, not even a timestamp. If combined with the + <option>--output-fields=</option> option will output the listed fields for each log record, + instead of the message.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -398,10 +399,11 @@ <varlistentry> <term><option>--output-fields=</option></term> - <listitem><para>A comma separated list of the fields which should be included in the output. This has an - effect only for the output modes which would normally show all fields (<option>verbose</option>, - <option>export</option>, <option>json</option>, <option>json-pretty</option>, <option>json-sse</option> and - <option>json-seq</option>). The <literal>__CURSOR</literal>, <literal>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP</literal>, + <listitem><para>A comma separated list of the fields which should be included in the output. This has + an effect only for the output modes which would normally show all fields (<option>verbose</option>, + <option>export</option>, <option>json</option>, <option>json-pretty</option>, + <option>json-sse</option> and <option>json-seq</option>), as well as on <option>cat</option>. For the + former, the <literal>__CURSOR</literal>, <literal>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP</literal>, <literal>__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP</literal>, and <literal>_BOOT_ID</literal> fields are always printed.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> |