<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> <!-- This file is part of systemd. Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <refentry id="systemd-cat"> <refentryinfo> <title>systemd-cat</title> <productname>systemd</productname> <authorgroup> <author> <contrib>Developer</contrib> <firstname>Lennart</firstname> <surname>Poettering</surname> <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> </author> </authorgroup> </refentryinfo> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>systemd-cat</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>1</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>systemd-cat</refname> <refpurpose>Connect a pipeline or program's output with the journal</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <cmdsynopsis> <command>systemd-cat <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg>COMMAND</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARGUMENTS</arg></command> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>systemd-cat <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg></command> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para><command>systemd-cat</command> may be used to connect STDOUT and STDERR of a process with the journal, or as a filter tool in a shell pipeline to pass the output the previous pipeline element generates to the journal.</para> <para>If no parameter is passed <command>systemd-cat</command> will write everything it reads from standard input (STDIN) to the journal.</para> <para>If parameters are passed they are executed as command line with standard output (STDOUT) and standard error output (STDERR) connected to the journal, so that all it writes is stored in the journal.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Options</title> <para>The following options are understood:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><option>-h</option></term> <term><option>--help</option></term> <listitem><para>Prints a short help text and exits.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>--version</option></term> <listitem><para>Prints a short version string and exits.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-t</option></term> <term><option>--identifier=</option></term> <listitem><para>Specify a short string that is used to identify the logging tool. If not specified no identifying string is written to the journal.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-p</option></term> <term><option>--priority=</option></term> <listitem><para>Specify the default priority level for the logged messages. Pass one of <literal>emerg</literal>, <literal>alert</literal>, <literal>crit</literal>, <literal>err</literal>, <literal>warning</literal>, <literal>notice</literal>, <literal>info</literal>, <literal>debug</literal>, or a value between 0 and 7 (corresponding to the same named levels). These priority values are the same as defined by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Defaults to <literal>info</literal>. Note that this simply controls the default, individual lines may be logged with different levels if they are prefixed accordingly. For details see <option>--level-prefix=</option> below.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>--level-prefix=</option></term> <listitem><para>Controls whether lines read are parsed for syslog priority level prefixes. If enabled (the default) a line prefixed with a priority prefix such as <literal><5></literal> is logged at priority 5 (<literal>notice</literal>), and similar for the other priority levels. Takes a boolean argument.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Exit status</title> <para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Examples</title> <example> <title>Invoke a program</title> <para>This calls <filename noindex='true'>/bin/ls</filename> with STDOUT/STDERR connected to the journal:</para> <programlisting># systemd-cat ls</programlisting> </example> <example> <title>Usage in a shell pipeline</title> <para>This builds a shell pipeline also invoking <filename>/bin/ls</filename> and writes the output it generates to the journal:</para> <programlisting># ls | systemd-cat</programlisting> </example> <para>Even though the two examples have very similar effects the first is preferable since only one process is running at a time, and both STDOUT and STDERR are captured while in the second example only STDOUT is captured.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>See Also</title> <para> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logger</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> </refentry>