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| author | Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de> | 2018-10-25 23:34:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2018-10-26 09:59:39 +0200 |
| commit | 23ad99b51953d60a8e8b44a59aa4f1281b52e326 (patch) | |
| tree | 038942b42c957e2a67c6b7ade163494cca655e56 /man/journalctl.xml | |
| parent | dcdc2f61b19dca2c7fc439e43c64fb0fc4c63e97 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-23ad99b51953d60a8e8b44a59aa4f1281b52e326.tar.gz | |
man: journalctl: expand description of --all
In the default journalctl output, unprintable entries are abbreviated as
“[<amount> blob data]”; using the same term in the documentation helps
users to quickly discover the option they need to add in order to see
those entries.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/journalctl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/journalctl.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index 5102dcdd39..7c1b094ee0 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ <term><option>-a</option></term> <term><option>--all</option></term> - <listitem><para>Show all fields in full, even if they - include unprintable characters or are very - long.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Show all fields in full, even if they include unprintable characters or are very long. By + default, fields with unprintable characters are abbreviated as "blob data". (Note that the pager may escape + unprintable characters again.)</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |