Today i was needing the correct journalctl incantation to get the logs exclusively from the last systemd service execution. It seems that Google is not what it used to be, and did not infer from my Google profile that I likely was looking for technical computer information not “Botched Executions” and death penalty. Oh well here is a screen shot from the results 🙂
PS: For the actual solution it is quite more complicated than I desired. From serverfault.com it seems one needs to get the last InvocationID and then pass it to journalctl. So much hassle.
journalctl _SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID=$(systemctl show -p InvocationID --value my.service)
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