How to get log just for last 5 minutes from command line

Question

How to get log for recent time, for example, for last 5 minutes?

This command in command line

adb logcat -v time | find "E/"

gives error logs for all time.

(It's not interesting to wait several minutes while all logs is displaying)

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

The -v time command displays the date, invocation time, priority/tag, and PID of the process issuing the message. So it is not a filter for the actual timestamp of the log. I do not believe there is a way to do this.

Though, you can clear the log with adb logcat -c.

Answer 2

adb logcat -T "$(date +'%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%q' -d '5 minutes ago')"

Caveats:

• Uses time from host system, not device so if there is drift you have to correct for it
• Requires a POSIX shell and date command (works on Linux and Mac, not sure windows)