From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:40:36 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > Nope. These options remove entire files, when what I want to do is   
   > purge messages of certain age belonging to a certain facility and   
   > certain severity, regardless of what file they reside in.   
   >   
   > I repeat: this feature is intentionally not implemented by the   
   > journal.   
      
   With Open Source, there is always a way.   
      
   Looks like the way to do it is to use the export format from   
   journalctl, and do your custom filtering on that. If you want to put   
   the result back into systemd journal format, you can use this   
   .   
      
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