GFJOURNAL(1)

💖 GFJOURNAL — bestie, it's the journal status reader 💖

okay so real talk, this one is gfjournal from the Gfarm manual, section 1. it reads a journal file and tells you what's inside. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

gfjournal — display status of a journal file

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gfjournal [options] journal-file

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So gfjournal reads a journal file and outputs a status report about that file to standard out. That's it, that's the job. 💅

By default it gives you the status summary of the journal file, and it looks like this:

         records  seqnum(min/max)          record length(min/max/ave)
              30           2/          31          24/    120/     37

And when you throw the -l option on there, gfjournal also dumps every single record in the journal file, like:

         seqnum    operation        length  argument
                 2 BEGIN                 24
                 3 MDHOST_ADD            56 name=gfmd1.example.com
                 4 END                   24
                 5 BEGIN                 24
                 6 USER_ADD              68 username=gfarmadm
                 7 END                   24
         (snip)
         records  seqnum(min/max)          record length(min/max/ave)
              30             2/        31          24/    120/     37

the way it just lists every record and then hits you with the summary at the bottom?? main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d — sets the log level to 'debug'. get all up in the details, bestie 🔍
• -h — displays a list of command options. the little help menu moment 🫶
• -? — equivalent to -h. same thing, different font ✨
• -l — list all records in the journal file. every last one 💖
• -m — display the maximum sequence number only. just the one number, no extra yapping 🎀
• -r — do not display status summary or a header line for a list of records. heads up though: this option is effective only when it is specified with the -l option. so -r on its own is giving nothing 🙈
• -v — prints verbose messages. chatty mode, activated 🦋

ngl -r only doing its thing alongside -l is the kind of lore you need to know before you're confused at 3am. iykyk 💀

🌈 that's the whole page, babe 🌈

this was gfjournal from the Gfarm manual, section 1 — sourced from Gfarm, dated 2 Jul 2012. iconic. periodt. go read a journal file or something 💜🎀