[arch-general] journalctl

[Damjan Georgievski]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 10:26, Pascal via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> hello,
> when I use journalctl to track system events, I introduce line breaks for
> better readability.
> like multitail, I would like to introduce more verbose line breaks...
> I wrote these few lines but it doesn't work as expected :
>
> exec 6<&0
> exec 0< <( while :; do read -sn1 k; echo $'\n'"# $( date +%H:%M:%S )
> -------------------------------------------"$'\n'; done )
> journalctl -f
> exec 0<&6 6<&-
>
> the second instruction "exec 0< <( while..." played alone works perfectly
> in my terminal, but not as a redirection for journalctl.
> any leads ?
> regards, lacsaP.

Why don't you just replace the PAGER/SYSTEMD_PAGER from less to your
own tool (multitail even? never used it).


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damjan