Question

in many shell commands the output is a continuous stream of events, such as system log. I need to view only the outputs from now or current system time.
here is a program output I get from adb logcat,

09-03 17:12:04.562   479   957 I ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.home.HomeActivity } from pid 1230
09-03 17:12:04.687   479  1030 I ActivityManager: Start proc com.amazon.mShop.android for activity com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.home.HomeActivity: pid=19164 uid=10158 gids={1006, 3003}
09-03 17:12:05.593   479   912 I ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { dat=?paramSuggestionText=cell%20phone flg=0x20000 cmp=com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.search.SearchActivity (has extras) } from pid 19164
09-03 17:12:05.796   479   620 I ActivityManager: Displayed com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.search.SearchActivity: +186ms (total +1s119ms)
09-03 17:12:08.601   479   620 I ActivityManager: Displayed com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.home.HomeActivity: +3s925ms
09-03 17:12:08.601   479   620 I ActivityManager: Resumed Activity: com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.search.SearchActivity totalTime: 4037 ms
09-03 17:13:35.742   479   957 I ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=intentActionStartActivity flg=0x20000 cmp=com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.categoryBrowse.CategoryBrowseActivity } from pid 19164
09-03 17:13:36.007   479   620 I ActivityManager: Displayed com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.categoryBrowse.CategoryBrowseActivity: +222ms
09-03 17:13:53.328   479   957 I ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { dat=?&paramSuggestionFilters=s%3An%3A%2C%3A4991425011%0As%3An%3A%2C%3A4991426011%0As%3An%3A%2C%3A5088769011%0As%3An%3A%2C%3A5263615011&paramDepartmentName=Programs flg=0x20000 cmp=com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.search.SearchActivity (has extras) } from pid 19164
09-03 17:13:53.484   479   620 I ActivityManager: Displayed com.amazon.mShop.android/com.amazon.mShop.search.SearchActivity: +145ms

It is a continuous stream, that is showing events from the system start, but I only need the logs that are from current system time. So, how can I achieve that?

Answer 1

my problem solved with logcat -c option. a more general solution is using tail -f command line option. though it is not super accurate but works.