Surviving the Nextcloud log in a terminal

[robbie]

Here’s a quick script to tail the nextcloud log and pare down the output to make it manageable in a terminal. It depends on jq (https://github.com/stedolan/jq) being installed.

tail -f data/nextcloud.log | \
    jq -r '"\(.app) at \(.time)\n\(.url) \(.message.Exception)\n\(.message.Message)\n\(.message.File):\(.message.Line)"'

[buttle]

Here’s another approach

Human-readable logs in the terminal

I’ve put this together to watch the nextcloud.log file ‘live’ tail -f /opt/nextcloud-data/nextcloud.log | sed --unbuffered 's=\\\\n=\n=g' | sed 's=\\\\\\==g' Cheers.