lnav − ncurses-based log file viewer
lnav [−hVsar] [logfile1 logfile2 ...]
The log file navigator, lnav, is an enhanced log file viewer that takes advantage of any semantic information that can be gleaned from the files being viewed, such as timestamps and log levels. Using this extra semantic information, lnav can do things like interleaving messages from different files, generate histograms of messages over time, and providing hotkeys for navigating through the file. It is hoped that these features will allow the user to quickly and efficiently zero in on problems.
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? |
View/leave the online help text. |
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q |
Quit the program. |
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−h |
Print help and exit |
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−H |
Display the internal help text. |
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−n |
Run without the curses UI. (headless mode) |
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−c cmd |
Execute a command after the files have been loaded. |
−f path
Execute the commands in the given file.
−I path
Add the given configuration directory to the search path.
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−n |
Do not open the default syslog file if no files are given. | ||
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−q |
Quiet mode. Do not print the log messages after executing all of the commands. | ||
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−i |
Install the given format files in the $HOME/.lnav/formats/installed directory and exit. | ||
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−u |
Update formats installed from git repositories. | ||
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−C |
Check the configuration and exit. The log format files will be loaded and checked. Any files given on the command-line will be loaded checked to make sure they match a log format. |
−d file
Write debug messages to the given file.
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−V |
Print version information. | ||
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−r |
Recursively load files from the given directories. | ||
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−R |
Load older rotated log files as well. | ||
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−t |
Prepend timestamps to the lines of data being read in on the standard input. |
−w file
Write the contents of the standard input to this file.
logfile1
The log files or directories to view. If a directory is given, all of the files in the directory will be loaded.
To load and follow the syslog file:
lnav
To load all of the files in /var/log:
lnav /var/log
To watch the output of make with timestamps prepended:
make 2>&1 | lnav −t
This manual page was written by Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).