Monday, April 29, 2013

dmesg -H is sexy

dmesg(1) from util-linux 2.23 provides some small usability improvements and all the improvements is possible to enable by -H,--human command line option.
  • enable pager (you know this for example from 'git log')
  • enable relative timestamps to display local time and delta in human readable format
  • enable colors for timestamp prefix, subsystem prefix and message body (different colors for different log levels)
dmesg -H util-linux 2.23

Hint: add

    alias dmesg="dmesg --human" 

somewhere to your /etc/profile.d/ directory.

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