Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 413138 wishlist > thanks > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> Problem: ls -la /var/log/exim4/ > >> SUGGESTION >> >> A sysadm who reads log files regular manner would find it helpful to >> get the listing in correct order. This would help (head -10, tail ..) >> etc commands, not to mention reading the logs in order as needed. > > Possible solutions > > ls -lt /var/log/exim4/
Close, but the file listing may used also elsewhere other than the shell command prompt, where date based sorting is not an option. It would be nice if the filenames would be automatically follow natural sorting criterias, like they would with NNN. > dateext > Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension like > YYYYMMDD instead of simply adding a number. That would be alternative. but wouldn't help handling the numbered files. I would be nice if the filenames would automatically have sequence numbers that would be uniform, like NNN. Now the sort(1) command cannot be easily applied to the names Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
