[bash] redirect journalctl

nTia89 · 2013-01-02 20:37:30

hi to everybody,

i want to "open" the systemd log (i know and use the journalctl command) outside the terminal, outside the not comfortable pager.....

my idea is to simply use a text editor such as geany, but my little bash knowledge aren't enough to perform this task....can anyone help me?

thanks

kaszak696 · 2013-01-02 20:40:25

journalctl --no-pager

?

WorMzy · 2013-01-02 20:45:18

If your text editor supports reading from STDIN, you could do something like this:

PAGER="vim -" journalctl

dodo3773 · 2013-01-03 03:34:54

Something like this?:

$ export SYSTEMD_PAGER=cat
$ journalctl > /tmp/journal && geany /tmp/journal

Just put "export SYSTEMD_PAGER=cat" in your .zshrc (.bashrc whatever) if you don't want to use the systemd pager at all.

Last edited by dodo3773 (2013-01-03 03:35:56)

nTia89 · 2013-01-03 11:56:00

thanks, following your suggestions:

journalctl --no-pager --this-boot > /tmp/log.log && geany /tmp/log.log

it works, but i think (i hope) exist a way to redirect the journalctl output into geany input, this trick should be perfect....

tomk · 2013-01-03 12:08:27

Are you aware that you can use syslog with journald to produce legacy-style plain text logs? Might save you some of the hoop-jumping suggested above.

nTia89 · 2013-01-03 13:29:33

this could be an alternative solution, but in this way i make my (old) pc slower, since it's a second operation.... or not?

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