Need help with a script

herman404 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2005

Hi, I need to write a shell script that has to do the following:

Given a directory of log files that has the following filename format:
audit<date>_<time>_<ID Number>.log

What the script needs to do is to get all the files for one day, sort them by the time, and write the contents of all these files for the day to a new file, keeping it sorted by time.

I'm new to scripting, so I have no idea how to do this without writing C/Java code. But our team wants to make it a script for performance reasons. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by herman404

But our team wants to make it a script for performance reasons. Any ideas?

That's crazy. A script can't out-perform a C program.

bhargav · #3 (**permalink**) 02-18-2005

It may be easy to do the job with scripting.

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