'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- .\" Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Miquel van Smoorenburg. .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA .\" .\"{{{}}} .\"{{{ Title .TH READBOOTLOG 1 "NOV 12, 2018" "sysvinit " "User Commands" .\"}}} .\"{{{ Name .SH NAME readbootlog \- show contents of the boot log, stripping away control characters .\"}}} .\"{{{ Synopsis .SH SYNOPSIS .B readbootlog .RB [ \-h ] [\-\fBf\fP \fIfile\/\fP] .br .\"}}} .\"{{{ Description .SH DESCRIPTION .B readbootlog is a tool for reading the boot log (by default \fI/var/log/boot\fP). The program strips away control characters and non-human readable contents from the log file. Output is dumped to the terminal where it can be piped or redirected to a file. .\"}}} .\"{{{ Options .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-f\fP \fIfile\fP" Tells \fBreadbootlog\fP to use a specific file instead of \fI/var/log/boot\fP. .IP \fB\-h\fP Displays a brief help message. .\"{{{ Files .SH FILES /var/log/boot .\"}}} .\"{{{ Author .SH AUTHOR .MT jsmith@\:resonatingmedia\:.com Jesse Smith .ME .\"}}} .\"{{{ See also .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR bootlogd (8) .\"}}}