How to get log just for last 5 minutes from command line

Question

How to get log for recent time, for example, for last 5 minutes?

This command in command line

adb logcat -v time | find "E/"

gives error logs for all time.

(It's not interesting to wait several minutes while all logs is displaying)

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

adb logcat -T "$(date +'%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%q' -d '5 minutes ago')"

Caveats:

• Uses time from host system, not device so if there is drift you have to correct for it
• Requires a POSIX shell and date command (works on Linux and Mac, not sure windows)