The option cursor-file takes a filename as argument. If the file exists and
contains a valid cursor, this is used to start the output after this position.
At the end, the last cursor gets written to the file.
This allows for an easy implementation of a timer that regularly looks in the
journal for some messages.
journalctl --cursor-file err-cursor -b -p err
journalctl --cursor-file audit-cursor -t audit --grep DENIED
Or you might want to walk the journal in steps of 10 messages:
journalctl --cursor-file ./curs -n10 --since=today -t systemd
- Don't redefine helpers on every call
- Prefix helper names with main function name
- Adjust some helper names for consistency and convention adherance
allow _journalctl to work when the rcquotes option is set, broken in ba89f80620.
allow the completion of --file multiple times, which ba89f80620 claims is true.
Fixes#4842
After `journalctl -D /var/log/journal` "--directory", "--file",
"--machine" and "--root" should not be available for completion, because
they are exclusive. But multiple `--file` arguments are allowed.
This only completes fields from `journalctl --user` in _journal_fields when `--user`
is used.
It also changes $_sys_service_mgr to include both `--system` and `--user`,
because `journalctl` behaves different from `systemctl` in this regard.
No attempt is made to filter out invalid combinations, e.g. when using both
`--directory` and `--system` (see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3949).
This uses the same mechanism from _systemctl to inject `--user` into the
`journalctrl -F _EXE` call to list executables.
Before this patch the "commands" section would list executables from
system units always.
Escape colons and backslashes in unit names.
This gives correct completions for units with names like
systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service
and
systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-...
removed pointless index sort of bootids.
use `compadd -a' to add each array, instead of expanding possibly hundreds of words needlessly.
optional completion of -b
-- fix grammar and reword some descriptions for clarity
-- add a useful description of what --follow does
-- fix the description for --after-cursor
-- properly introduce the FSS acronym for "Forward Secure Sealing" in
both sections
-- clarify the --disk-usage command
[zj: perform similar changes to zsh completions]
squash! journalctl: fix several issues in --help message text
Suggested by David Wilkins <dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie> in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967521:
> [Specific boot ID is a] bit of a palaver to obtain. I consulted the
> verbose dump of the journal to discover the _BOOT_ID for the
> timestamp, and then generated the journal dump for that boot using
> journalctl _BOOT_ID=foo -o short-monotonic.
_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT in the --user-unit flag argument should instead be
USER_UNIT. It should also have an optional `=` between the flag and the
argument.
Things like -n to specify the lines to show with systemctl and
journalctl accepts syntax like:
journalctl -n4
systemctl -n14
Previously, typing `-nXX <tab>` where XX is a number, zsh would try to
complete an integer. Now it will see the XX and use the _journalctl_none
completion. This is also how any of the single letter options that take
arguments work as well.
Splitting things unnecessarily at newlines causes tab completion to take
an extremely long time. Also add a note saying that caching is not good
for journalctl's completion.
