The goal here is to make dmesg output with the full verbosity a bit easier to parse by a human. The script will transform: [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0x6458, nr=0x58, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0xc010645b, nr=0x5b, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0xc0106461, nr=0x61, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0xc01c64ae, nr=0xae, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_mode_addfb], [FB:32] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0xc0106464, nr=0x64, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_vm_open_locked], 0x7fd9302fe000,0x00a00000 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0x400c645f, nr=0x5f, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=699, cmd=0xc00464af, nr=0xaf, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:intel_crtc_set_config], [CRTC:3] [NOFB] to [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_I915_GEM_THROTTLE [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_I915_GEM_CREATE [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_I915_GEM_SET_TILING [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_IOCTL_MODE_ADDFB [drm:drm_mode_addfb], [FB:32] [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_I915_GEM_MMAP_GTT [drm:drm_vm_open_locked], 0x7fd9302fe000,0x00a00000 [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_I915_GEM_SET_DOMAIN [drm:drm_ioctl], [pid=699], [dev=0xe200], DRM_IOCTL_MODE_RMFB [drm:intel_crtc_set_config], [CRTC:3] [NOFB] It can be used as a Unix filter or with a file as argument. HTH, -- Damien