Bug 60596

Summary:	journalctl's incorrect command line options parsing
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	appzer0 <appzer0>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	public.avatar
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description appzer0 2013-02-10 13:50:44 UTC

appzer0@poopy:/tmp/pkg-systemd$ sudo journalctl -n 10
Failed to add match '10': Argument invalide
appzer0@poopy:/tmp/pkg-systemd$ sudo journalctl -n=10
Failed to parse lines '=10'
appzer0@poopy:/tmp/pkg-systemd$ sudo journalctl -n=1
Failed to parse lines '=1'
appzer0@poopy:/tmp/pkg-systemd$ sudo journalctl -n 1
Failed to add match '1': Argument invalide
appzer0@poopy:/tmp/pkg-systemd$ sudo journalctl -n1 # This is OK

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-02-11 22:56:21 UTC

Yeah, that's a limitation of getopt_long()'s "optional_argument" parser. Not sure how we can make this work nicely.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2013-02-11 23:33:31 UTC

OK, found a nice way to deal with this, finally.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=96088db02b2802049f1edbd44d5f8c2ea838f3f2

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2013-02-11 23:51:01 UTC

*** Bug 55408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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