Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote: > >> ... >> If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log? What exactly >> does it split? I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading >> about it. > Under Gentoo each package has a name consisting of two parts: "category/ > name". But since under Unix/Linux the "/" is used to separate path com- > ponents, the build logs in "/var/log/portage/" have sort of ugly names: > "category:name-version:YYYYMMDD:HHMMSS.log" with a colon rather than a > slash between category and name. The "split-log" feature now splits the > category to a sub-directory name under "/var/log/portage/build/" and us- > es name, version and time stamp as the log file name. This enables you > to simply use the full Gentoo package name in scripts as in > > $ pkg=media-gfx/gimp > $ ls /var/log/portage/build/$pkg-*.log | sort -t : -rk 2,3 | head -1 > > to get the path to the most recent log file without first having to re- > place the slash with a colon. > > This is probably only relevant if you write your own scripts to get your > tasks done. And I don't have any idea whether or not it's new, I just > found it by pure chance when looking for something else ... :-) > > Sincerely, > Rainer >
Would this make using tab completion easier too? I ask because when I want to cat a error log file, tab completion gets difficult pretty quick. I'm not sure this would help with that tho. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
