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tony is trying to troubleshoot errors produced by an application on his linux system but has to dig through lots of entries in the journal log file to find them. what journalctl match option would help him by only displaying journal entries related to the specific application?

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Tony can use the `-u` or `--unit` option followed by the name of the systemd unit associated with the application to filter the journal entries and display only the ones related to that application.

For example, if the name of the systemd unit associated with the application is `myapp.service`, Tony can run the following command to display only the journal entries related to that application:

```
journalctl -u myapp.service
```

This will show only the logs that are associated with the `myapp` service and help Tony troubleshoot the errors produced by that application.
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