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dmesg | Cheatsheet

dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer.

The default action is to display all messages from the kernel ring buffer.


Dump kernel log

dmesg

Clear kernel log

dmesg -c

Read kernel log in realtime

dmesg -wxT

With human-readable timestamp

dmesg --time-format --syslog 

With human-readable timestamp

dmesg -T 
dmesg --time-format iso
dmesg --time-format ctime

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