New features:
- --decode facility and level number to human readable prefixes
$ dmesg --decode
kern :info : [26443.677632] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
kern :info : [26443.830225] PM: resume of devices complete after 2452.856 msecs
kern :debug : [26443.830606] PM: Finishing wakeup.
kern :warn : [26443.830608] Restarting tasks ... done.
- filter out messages according to the --facility and --level options, for example
$ dmesg --level=err,warn
$ dmesg --facility=daemon,user
$ dmesg --facility=daemon --level=debug
- -u, --userspace to print only userspace messages
- -k, --kernel to print only kernel messages
- -t, --notime to skip [...] timestamps
- -T, --ctime to print human readable timestamp in ctime()-like format. Unfortunately, this is useless on laptops if you have used suspend/resume. (The kernel does not use the standard system time as a source for printk() and it's not updated after resume.)
- --show-delta to print time delta between printed messages
$ dmesg --show-delta
[35523.876281 < 4.016887>] usb 1-4.1: new low speed USB device using hci_hcd and address 12
[35523.968398 < 0.092117>] usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=413c, idProduct=2003
[35523.968408 < 0.000010>] usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[35523.968416 < 0.000008>] usb 1-4.1: Product: Dell USB Keyboard