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| author | Karel Zak | 2019-01-23 11:41:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2019-01-23 11:41:43 +0100 |
| commit | 1c4a2600cc5dc44e6d517ca9fa6f3d7b1ef9d481 (patch) | |
| tree | 42b27b3fed6f9933b8a2bb721acaed14eef59d1b /misc-utils/logger.1 | |
| parent | libblkid: remove dependence on libuuid (diff) | |
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logger: concatenate multiple lines of MESSAGE into a single field.
this is deemed a useful special case since journalctl will only show
either the first or last element of the message array if the field
appears multiple times.
Based on patch from: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetil.homme@redpill-linpro.com>
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/743
Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/742
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/logger.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/logger.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1 index bf11c411b..37a87e5c9 100644 --- a/misc-utils/logger.1 +++ b/misc-utils/logger.1 @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ execution of will display MESSAGE field. Use .B journalctl \-\-output json-pretty to see rest of the fields. +.sp +To include newlines in MESSAGE, specify MESSAGE several times. This is +handled as a special case, other fields will be stored as an array in +the journal if they appear multiple times. .TP .BR \-\-msgid " \fImsgid Sets the RFC5424 MSGID field. Note that the space character is not permitted |