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diff --git a/README b/README index 6b6e439..401a32c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ NAME mlog – merge log files by timestamp SYNOPSIS - mlog [-f] [-s] [-u] [files ...] + mlog [-f] [-s] [-u] [-n lines] [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. + order. The lines in the files need to start with lexicographically + comparable timestamps. mlog prints the oldest line first, thus + preserving relative order. mlog behaves like a combination of ‘sort -m’ and ‘tail -f’. @@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ DESCRIPTION With two -f flags, seek to the end of files on start and only print fresh lines. + -n N Only print the last N lines of each file (default: all lines). + -s Strip a prefix generated by socklog(8) from each line, which have a format like ‘facility.priority: timestamp’. @@ -46,4 +49,4 @@ LICENSE http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ -Void Linux January 12, 2024 Void Linux +Void Linux January 14, 2024 Void Linux |