[systemd-devel] How to see full lines with journalctl?

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 09:56:36PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 17.11.2012 21:43, schrieb Miklos Vajna:
> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 03:38:47PM +0100, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> >> Am 17.11.2012 15:34, schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
> >>> You have a point here. Now journalctl -f --full does just that
> >>
> >> would it be not better to consider remove all this
> >> cut/pager-stuff as default and let the systemd tools
> >> behave like any unix-command all over the years?
> > 
> > It's just like git, where you need 'git --no-pager log --full-history'
> > if you want to get everything, by default it spawns a pager, and
> > simplifies history
> 
> and because one tool does it wrong it makes it right for the next?
> 

And because you think its wrong makes it wrong? Feel free to disable it
globally without the need for an alias. Because both systemd and git are
sane projects, they're easily configurable, even using your 30 year old
standards:

export SYSTEMD_PAGER=cat
export GIT_PAGER=cat