---
name: "babeltrace2-plugin-text"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "babeltrace2"
version: "2.1.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/babeltrace2-plugin-text"
---

# babeltrace2-plugin-text(7)

Babeltrace 2: Plain text plugin

## NAME

babeltrace2-plugin-text - Babeltrace 2: Plain text plugin

## DESCRIPTION

The Babeltrace 2 **text** plugin contains component classes which read or write plain text data.

See [**babeltrace2-intro**(7)](/babeltrace2-intro/7.md) to learn more about the Babeltrace 2 project and its core concepts.

## COMPONENT CLASSES

**source.text.dmesg**

Reads the lines of a Linux kernel ring buffer, that is, the output of the [**dmesg**(1)](/dmesg/1.md) tool, and emits each line as an event message.

See [**babeltrace2-source.text.dmesg**(7)](/babeltrace2-source.text.dmesg/7.md).

**sink.text.details**

Deterministically prints the messages it consumes with details to the standard output.

See [**babeltrace2-sink.text.details**(7)](/babeltrace2-sink.text.details/7.md).

**sink.text.pretty**

Pretty-prints the messages it consumes to the standard output or to a file.

This is equivalent to the **text** output format of [**babeltrace**(1)](/babeltrace/1.md) (Babeltrace 1).

See [**babeltrace2-sink.text.pretty**(7)](/babeltrace2-sink.text.pretty/7.md).

## BUGS

If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it on the Babeltrace bug tracker (see \<https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/babeltrace\>).

## RESOURCES

The Babeltrace project shares some communication channels with the LTTng project (see \<https://lttng.org/\>).

• Babeltrace website (see \<https://babeltrace.org/\>)

• Mailing list (see \<https://lists.lttng.org\>) for support and development: **lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org**

• IRC channel (see \<irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng\>): **#lttng** on **irc.oftc.net**

• Bug tracker (see \<https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/babeltrace\>)

• Git repository (see \<https://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git\>)

• GitHub project (see \<https://github.com/efficios/babeltrace\>)

• Continuous integration (see \<https://ci.lttng.org/view/Babeltrace/\>)

• Code review (see \<https://review.lttng.org/q/project:babeltrace\>)

## AUTHORS

The Babeltrace 2 project is the result of hard work by many regular developers and occasional contributors.

The current project maintainer is Jérémie Galarneau \<mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com\>.

## COPYRIGHT

This plugin is part of the Babeltrace 2 project.

Babeltrace is distributed under the MIT license (see \<https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT\>).

## SEE ALSO

[**babeltrace2-intro**(7)](/babeltrace2-intro/7.md), [**babeltrace2-source.text.dmesg**(7)](/babeltrace2-source.text.dmesg/7.md), [**babeltrace2-sink.text.details**(7)](/babeltrace2-sink.text.details/7.md), [**babeltrace2-sink.text.pretty**(7)](/babeltrace2-sink.text.pretty/7.md)