PORTSLOGGER(1)

💅 PORTSLOGGER(1) 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

portslogger — logs ports builds selectively, and yes bestie this lil page is from the General Commands Manual 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

portslogger [-s] directory

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so portslogger saves logs from ports build in separate files. Very organized, very demure, very cutesy 💅

It handles directory change messages from the ports tree infrastructure and switches to a corresponding log file situated in directory accordingly. Like, e.g., it will log the build from screen in directory/screen-4.0.3p1.log — literally slay.

portslogger will filter progress-bar noise from ftp(1), pkg_add(1), and pkg_create(1). No cap, it's giving clean logs only ✨

By default, portslogger acts as a filter and still passes its input to stdout, unless run with -s. That's the whole flag situation from the synopsis, bestie — -s is right there in portslogger [-s] directory.

It is most often used as

$ make package 2>&1 | portslogger logdir

or in conjunction with tmux(1), such as

$ tmux pipe-pane 'portslogger -s logdir'

🦋 so iconic: pipe your build into it, or let tmux(1) pipe-pane it for you. Either way, the logs are getting their own little homes.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• dpb(1)
• tmux(1)

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source/version: Debian · date: June 26, 2018 — okay bye bestie, that's the whole page 🫶💜