dmesg with colored human-readable dates

dmesg -T|sed -e 's|\(^.*'`date +%Y`']\)\(.*\)|\x1b[0;34m\1\x1b[0m - \2|g'
Use sed to color the output of a human-readable dmesg output

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By: jlaunay
2012-07-31 22:21:07

What Others Think

With sed it's easy to choose the bash color to use ;34 here for blue. You can also use grep to highlight the date instead of sed. dmesg -T| grep --color "^\[.*`date +%Y`\]" And export the GREP_COLORS variable to change the color. ex : export GREP_COLORS="fn=34:mc=01;30:ms=33:sl=21:cx=31"
jlaunay · 555 weeks and 6 days ago
dmesg -T works on my archlinux but on my debian server option -T does not exist. You can use perl if your dmesg does not support -T : dmesg|perl -ne "BEGIN{\$a= time()- qx!cat /proc/uptime!};s/\[\s*(\d+)\.\d+\]/localtime(\$1 + \$a)/e; print \$_;" | sed -e 's|\(^.*'`date +%Y`' \)\(.*\)|\x1b[0;34m\1\x1b[0m - \2|g'
jlaunay · 555 weeks and 6 days ago
Not working on CentOS: dmesg: invalid option -- T
dynaguy · 555 weeks and 5 days ago
-T option to dmesg is available on Fedora but not RHEL5/6.
foobrew · 555 weeks and 5 days ago
@dynaguy so as said on my previous comment on CentOS you should try : dmesg|perl -ne "BEGIN{\$a= time()- qx!cat /proc/uptime!};s/\[\s*(\d+)\.\d+\]/localtime(\$1 + \$a)/e; print \$_;" | sed -e 's|\(^.*'`date +%Y`' \)\(.*\)|\x1b[0;34m\1\x1b[0m - \2|g' If you get the error : bash: !}: event not found You need to turn off bash history substitution with : set +H
jlaunay · 555 weeks and 5 days ago
@jlaunay I just tried on CentOS 6.3 64bit. After "set +H" there is no more error message. But your command still doesn't give time stamp.
dynaguy · 555 weeks and 4 days ago
Recent CentOS use rsyslog. What I did is edit /etc/rsyslog.conf, add: kern.* /var/log/kern.log then "service rsyslog restart" Now you can view dmesg in file /var/log/kern.log with time/data
dynaguy · 555 weeks and 4 days ago
@dynaguy Good to know if I have to use CentOS one day.Thks
jlaunay · 555 weeks and 4 days ago
"dmesg -T" gives: "dmesg: invalid option -- 'T' Usage: dmesg [-c] [-n level] [-r] [-s bufsize]"
mpb · 555 weeks and 4 days ago
@mpb you should have a look at the previous comments. I gave an alternative usefull on OS using a dmesg which doesn't support the -T option.
jlaunay · 555 weeks and 4 days ago
@dynaguy -- no need to turn off bash history substitution. Change the bangs to ':'. The bangs are simply used as delimiters to the qx function, and were simply chosen as a character which wouldn't conflict with all of the other possible delimiters being used in the expression being quoted. Using ':' instead doesn't cause the history substitution problems...
bartonski · 555 weeks and 3 days ago
@dynaguy -- no need to turn off bash history substitution. Change the bangs to ':'. The bangs are simply used as delimiters to the qx function, and were simply chosen as a character which wouldn't conflict with all of the other possible delimiters being used in the expression being quoted. Using ':' instead doesn't cause the history substitution problems...
bartonski · 555 weeks and 3 days ago
dmesg |ccze -A
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