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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by jldugger on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:41PM (#25216130)
Spec for a tool I want written but am too lazy to make happen: journal - an append-only personal log.

Timestamps all input and appends it to a log file. Inputs can be either arguments to the command, or read from stdin if piped to.

Log file should be parseable with grep and other coreutils, but an indexed option might be useful for time range queries.

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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by agundy on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:00PM (#25216462)
You want something like https://jrnl.sh

I’ve used this for a few years now and it’s pretty solid.

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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by door99 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:51PM (#25216168)
https://jrnl.sh/ ?
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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by Spivak on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:56PM (#25216191)
To write:

    systemd-cat -t mylogs <<< "Message"
To read:

    journalctl -t mylogs --since yesterday
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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by megous on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:53PM (#25216433)
Systemd logs get rotated. :)
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Re:Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management by s_gourichon on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:06PM (#25241726)
Systemd logs get huge in practice. Binary format, also.

Still, nice hack value.

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