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| author | Rainer Gerhards | 2015-03-07 12:14:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2015-03-10 11:19:33 +0100 |
| commit | ae6846b842b4912f03730ac475e19a7916302893 (patch) | |
| tree | 78016ee51b94a574c96c31f897a3faccd9d46b7a /misc-utils/logger.1 | |
| parent | logger man page: update --size doc (diff) | |
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logger: add --skip-empty-lines to prevent logging empty lines
Empty log messages are generally considered useless. This option
enables to turn them off when processing files (including stdin).
[kzak@redhat.com: - rename --skip-empty-lines to --skip-empty,
- add the option to getopt_long(),
- add the option to bash-completion]
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/logger.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/logger.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1 index 164c5f49c..d0293a801 100644 --- a/misc-utils/logger.1 +++ b/misc-utils/logger.1 @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ given either, then standard input is logged. Use datagrams (UDP) only. By default the connection is tried to the syslog port defined in /etc/services, which is often 514 . .TP +.BR \-e , " \-\-skip-empty" +When processing files, empty lines will be ignored. An empty line +is defined to be a line without any characters. Thus a line consisting +only of whitespace is NOT considered empty. +Note that when the \fR\-\-prio\-prefix\fR option is specified, the priority +is not part of the line. Thus an empty line in this mode is a line that does +not have any characters after the priority (e.g. "<13>"). +.TP .BR \-f , " \-\-file " \fIfile Log the contents of the specified \fIfile\fR. This option cannot be combined with a command-line message. |