Simple Onedrive log viewer - my solution

[nickzeff]

I wanted a way to trigger a simple window to show me the latest entries in the onedrive activity log. I used the terminal for a while, but wanted something a bit more elegant. I wrote a script as follows to bring it up in a proper gtk window:

#! /bin/bash

PARSER='OFS="\n" {print $1 " " $2, $3, $4, substr($5,0,index($5,":")-1), substr($0,index($0,$6))}'

journalctl --user-unit=onedrive -f --lines=50 | awk -W interactive "$PARSER" | \
yad --title="One Drive Log viewer" --window-icon=logviewer \
    --button=gtk-close --geometry 1200x450-200+50 \
    --list --text="Contents of OneDrive Log" --tail --no-click --no-selection \
    --column Date --column Time --column Host \
    --column Tag --column Message:TIP

exit $?

Requires package yad to be installed, obviously. Looks like this:

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, and I trigger this script from one of the options in a menu on my top panel - I use the excellent Guillotine gnome extension for this (https://extensions.gnome.org//extension/3981/guillotine/) so it looks like the below...

Hope that helps spark off some ideas for someone!

[abraunegg]

@nickzeff
Many thanks for your contribution :) Greatly appreciated :)

[nickzeff]

I also tinkered around with some more of Guillotine's options, so I can also start and stop the Onedrive service from the menu as follows

This is not that difficult, so happy to share how I did that if anyone is interested.