Hi,

I'm trying to accomplish the following and would like some suggestions or possible bash script examples that may work

I have a directory that has a list of log files that's periodically dumped from a script that is crontab that are rotated 4 generations. There will be a time stamp that is associated when the file is created.

application.log.1
application.log.2
application.log.3
application.log.4
application.log.5

I have another script that will take an input of date/time, I'm not sure which is the easiest format to compare, from the short look around it sounds like epoch is the easiest/fastest.

I would like to take that format whichever it is, and basically subtract 5minutes which is a poll period thats been defined and then use that date/time to compare with the logs that are rotated and basically process the log that closely matches the "currentInputDateTime" where it can not be larger than "currentInputDateTime" but less than/equal to the current time, I assume this might be a "ls -tr | awk '{print $6 $7}' to get the date/time and somehow convert those to epoch.

I was wondering if this was something that has been encountered before so the wheel does not have to be re-invented.

Thanks in advance