Sorting logfiles

[SirB]

Hi all,

I am a Unix newby and need some help on this one:

This logfiles format needs to be sorterd according to time stamp. There can be several logfiles with the same prefix e.g.0001883 but with different timestamps.

The time stamp here is time (15:56,47) and date (18-10-2008).

0001883.de.20081018155647_0.log

I am thankful for any help on that.

rgds

 

[PHV]

ls *.log | sort -t. -k3

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[Salem]

> The time stamp here is time (15:56,47) and date (18-10-2008).
But is that also the create/modification time of the file as well?

If the actual timestamps are close enough to the timestamp encoded in the filename, then
[tt]ls -lrt *.log
ls -lt *.log[/tt]
should do what you want as well.


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[SirB]

Thanks,

that helped.

Kind rgds