[systemd-devel] ---- lines and verbose export

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 15.10.12 12:36, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the "---- Logs since ...", etc, lines are not described in the export
> format specification. So a simplistic 'journalctl -o export | parse_logs'
> will fail. Should the specification be tweaked, or should journalctl
> stop outputting those (otherwise useful) lines in verbose mode?

Hmm, in the json/export modes we should definitely suppress them, and
show them only in the modes intended for humans to digest. But even then
we should probably make them easily recognizable. My current way of
thinking is always to prefix with them with three dashes, much like SQL
comments.

i.e. suppress them in: json, json-pretty, cat, export.

Show them in: short, short-monotonic, verbose.

Does that make sense?

Lennart

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