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diff --git a/sysutils/fetchlog/pkg-descr b/sysutils/fetchlog/pkg-descr index eec0ee9..7b81d71 100644 --- a/sysutils/fetchlog/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/fetchlog/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile. -It is similar like tail (1) but offers some extra functionality for -output formatting. To show only the new messages appeared since the -last call fetchlog uses a bookmark to remember which messages have -been fetched. +It is similar like tail (1) but offers some extra functionality like +pattern matching with regular expressions or output formatting. To show +only the new messages appeared since the last call fetchlog uses a +bookmark to remember which messages have been fetched. fetchlog works on syslog generated logfiles as well as other logfiles. |