On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Gregory Leon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < > zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > > Of course they are not wrapped "properly", since the point is not to wrap > > them at all. I don't see anything awful about using arrow keys to move > > left and right and up and down. This makes it easy to quickly review > > lots of messages, some of which are long, some of which are short, > > while making it easy to read the whole message. > > > > I can understand that some people might find this useful but it is rather > unfortunate that if you need raw, complete, unwrapped output, you have to > use two flags of which one is long (i.e. "--no-pager -a"). Hm, wrapping should be disabled when using a pipe. At least that's what I see locally.
Also, I'm not sure about -a/-all, since it will give you unprintable characters... This is not what you want, usually. > Furthermore, if > you would like to page this, it becomes "journalctl --no-pager -a | less", Here 'LESS=-R journalctl' does the trick. > which is rather cumbersome. This is a rather important use-case since it is > necessary if you would like to pipe the complete output to any other > command. I'm not the one to blindly complain about journalctl "not > following the Unix way", but this seems rather important. > For what it's worth, I was quite surprised with the shortening and it was > not at all intuitive how to stop it when I've first encountered it, > particularly because it only appears *after* you disable the default pager. Actually, it only appear is you use --no-pager. I guess that some examples in the manpage could be useful. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel