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authordana <dana@dana.is>2019-03-06 19:20:06 -0600
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-03-19 10:48:26 +0100
commit4890482531a4c36d0f0fa37a3734fd809d95f305 (patch)
treee73910212a84066c94f75299c79c04fb9f05b15f /man/journalctl.xml
parentb5587fa99490981da68ceab5bc2d376b47400bee (diff)
downloadsystemd-4890482531a4c36d0f0fa37a3734fd809d95f305.tar.gz
journalctl: support `-b all` to negate effect of -b
Also fix an issue where -b without argument didn't always behave as -b0
Diffstat (limited to 'man/journalctl.xml')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 1ea7b24df1..a3c67f5e82 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-b <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional><optional><replaceable>±offset</replaceable></optional></option></term>
- <term><option>--boot=<optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional><optional><replaceable>±offset</replaceable></optional></option></term>
+ <term><option>-b <optional><optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional><optional><replaceable>±offset</replaceable></optional>|<constant>all</constant></optional></option></term>
+ <term><option>--boot<optional>=<optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional><optional><replaceable>±offset</replaceable></optional>|<constant>all</constant></optional></option></term>
<listitem><para>Show messages from a specific boot. This will
add a match for <literal>_BOOT_ID=</literal>.</para>
@@ -494,6 +494,10 @@
<replaceable>offset</replaceable> is not specified, a value of
zero is assumed, and the logs for the boot given by
<replaceable>ID</replaceable> are shown.</para>
+
+ <para>The special argument <constant>all</constant> can be
+ used to negate the effect of an earlier use of
+ <option>-b</option>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>