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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b6e439 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +MLOG(1) General Commands Manual MLOG(1) + +NAME + mlog – merge log files by timestamp + +SYNOPSIS + mlog [-f] [-s] [-u] [files ...] + +DESCRIPTION + mlog reads lines from multiple log files and prints them in chronological + order. The files need to start with comparable timestamps. mlog prints + the oldest line first, thus preserving relative order. + + mlog behaves like a combination of ‘sort -m’ and ‘tail -f’. + + The options are as follows: + + -f Follow the output files, output appended lines as file grows. + When the file is truncated or recreated, start from beginning. + With two -f flags, seek to the end of files on start and only + print fresh lines. + + -s Strip a prefix generated by socklog(8) from each line, which have + a format like ‘facility.priority: timestamp’. + + -u Only print unique lines. If other files contain the same line at + the current position, skip them. + +EXIT STATUS + The mlog utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. + +INTERNALS + On Linux, inotify(7) is used to detect file changes. + +SEE ALSO + tail(1), sort(1), svlogd(8) + +AUTHORS + Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> + +LICENSE + mlog is in the public domain. + + To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all + copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. + + http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ + +Void Linux January 12, 2024 Void Linux |