On 22 September 2014 11:33, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The current '--output FORMAT' argument defines a number of > common output formats, but there are some useful cases it > does cover. In particular when reading application logs it > is often desirable to display the code file name, line number > and function name. Rather than defining yet more fixed output > formats, this patch introduces user defined output formats. > > The format string is an arbitrary string which contains a > mixture of literal text and variable subsistitions. Each > variable name corresponds to a journal field name. A variable > name can be optionally followed by a data type, and in the > case of string types, a length limit. > As an opposing point of view, I've been accomplishing this by piping output through a script that parses and displays JSON. I rather this style of composability than passing format strings to journalctl itself.
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