topic Re: Usefull CLI commands to work with logs in General Topics

Usefull CLI commands to work with logs

_slv_ — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:59:30 GMT

Hello

I spend a lot of time playing with logs, ie.

 less mp-log ikemgr.log

How to:

- go to end of this file?

- search forward/backward keyword

- scrool up/down

and you problably know many other userfull keywords. Please share with us who are not well trained 😉 - yet

Regards

SLawek

reaper — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:47:31 GMT

Hi SLawek

less on the firewall works a lot like less in linux

if you open a log file

shift+g will take you to the end of the file (regular 'g' will take you to start of file)
/<keyword> to search , while in search use 'n' to go to the next or 'N' (shift+n) to go to the previous
only use arrow keys to scroll up or down

cpainchaud — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:51:37 GMT

you should have fun with command 'tail' too

OtakarKlier — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:47:45 GMT

'follow' is another good one if you want to see it realtime...

_slv_ — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:02:34 GMT

Could You give full comnand example for "follow"

from my finding another usefull command is:

tail lines 200 mp-log ikemgr.log - shows last 200 lines.

Regards

SLawek

OtakarKlier — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:11:05 GMT

Here is the command reference for 'tail':

tail

{

follow {no | yes} |

lines <value> |

agent-log <value> |

dp-log <file> |

mp-log <file> |

webserver-log <file>

}

MikeMeredith — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:16:35 GMT

And like Linux you can use 'h' to show a help screen with more commands on.