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by viluon 2238 days ago
It also allows you to read the logs in JSON, which is fantastic for automation. Parsing the syslog as a text file means a single newline in a syslog message screws your effort up. With journalctl, you can sift through error messages from specific services, confident that the results you are getting are exactly what the logs contain.

Unless, of course, some of the binaries are corrupt.