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Not all textfiles anymore: The journal for instance.
Thankfully editing logs isn't really a valid use case
Journalctl?
Yes, journalctl is the command for journal reading.
What's the journal?
Logs storage for applications and services.
But isn't it a text file?
The systemd journal stores log data in a binary format
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/
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