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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-10-11 16:42:46 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-10-11 16:43:37 +0200
commitcfbc22abd0525570a6e58968d518ea9a7d0403ba (patch)
tree75654346772c2d74c1b1837d1cf7c4b545d56cdf /man/journalctl.xml
parentfb5d873cfd4606383964c707da0ec21ebaa1c04b (diff)
journalctl: implement --since= and --until for filtering by time
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diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 62373d88ab..3786fdf514 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -264,12 +264,43 @@
<term><option>--cursor=</option></term>
<term><option>-c</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Jump to the location
- in the journal specified by the passed
+ <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+ from the location in the journal
+ specified by the passed
cursor.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--since=</option></term>
+ <term><option>--until=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+ newer or of the specified date,
+ resp. older or of the specified
+ date. Date specifications should be of
+ the format "2012-10-30 18:17:16". If
+ the time part is omitted, 00:00:00 is
+ assumed. If only the seconds component
+ is omitted, :00 is assumed. If the
+ date component is ommitted, the
+ current day is assumed. Alternatively
+ the strings
+ <literal>yesterday</literal>,
+ <literal>today</literal>,
+ <literal>tomorrow</literal> are
+ understood, which refer to 00:00:00 of
+ the day before the current day, the
+ current day, resp the day after the
+ current day. <literal>now</literal>
+ refers to the current time. Finally,
+ relative times may be specified,
+ prefixed with <literal>-</literal> or
+ <literal>+</literal>, referring to
+ times before resp. after the current
+ time.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--directory=</option></term>
<term><option>-D</option></term>