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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting modifying grep to return latest files Post 302303329 by vpraveena on Thursday 2nd of April 2009 11:16:34 AM
Old 04-02-2009
Command we tried using to grep ERROR from lastest 1 log files from 5 logs files available in that particular directory is:
grep ERROR 'ls -ltr | tail -1'

but this command is not working.. for me its saying.. cannot open DistributeImageFilesToTarget_10_dataLocations_PhillipinesDataLocations.xml.log

if i give ls -lrt for all the files in that diretory

-------r-- 1 egdevbb intdev 5022 Apr 2 05:13 DistributeDataFilesToTarget_4_dataLocations_ChinaDataLocations.xml.log
-------r-- 1 egdevbb intdev 1672 Apr 2 05:14 DistributeImageFilesToTarget_14_dataLocations_WHQDataLocations.xml.log
-------r-- 1 egdevbb intdev 7480 Apr 2 05:15 DistributeImageFilesToTarget_60_dataLocations_IndonesiaDataLocations.xml.log
-------r-- 1 egdevbb intdev 2113 Apr 2 05:34 DistributeImageFilesToTarget_8_dataLocations_MalaysiaDataLocations.xml.log
-------r-- 1 egdevbb intdev 2107 Apr 2 05:39 DistributeImageFilesToTarget_10_dataLocations_PhillipinesDataLocations.xml.log
 

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hpiel

hpiel(1)							      OpenHPI								  hpiel(1)

NAME

       hpiel - An openhpi sample application that displays HPI event log entries.

SYNOPSIS

       hpiel [ -d -e -c -p -r -x -v -h ]

DESCRIPTION

       hpiel searches the RPT (Resource Present Table) for resources with SAHPI_CAPABILITY_EVENT_LOG and displays event log entries for resources
       found.

OPTIONS

	--del, -d			       display domain event log entries
	--entitypath="<arg>", -e "<arg>"       display resource event log entries
					       (e.g. -e "{SYSTEM_CHASSIS,2}{SBC_BLADE,5}")
	--clear, -c    clear log before reading event log entries
	--resource, -p pull resource info along with log entry
	--rdr, -r      pull RDR info along with log entry
	--xml, -x      print output in xml format (not implemented)
	--verbose, -v  print debug messages
	--help, -h     print this usage message

	If neither -d or -e "<arg>" are specified, event log entries will be shown
       for all supporting resources by default.

HPI APIs uniquely used in this application
	 SaErrorT SAHPI_API saHpiEventLogInfoGet (
	     SAHPI_IN  SaHpiSessionIdT	   SessionId,
	     SAHPI_IN  SaHpiResourceIdT    ResourceId,
	     SAHPI_OUT SaHpiEventLogInfoT  *Info );

	 SaErrorT SAHPI_API saHpiEventLogEntryGet (
	     SAHPI_IN	 SaHpiSessionIdT	  SessionId,
	     SAHPI_IN	 SaHpiResourceIdT	  ResourceId,
	     SAHPI_IN	 SaHpiEventLogEntryIdT	  EntryId,
	     SAHPI_OUT	 SaHpiEventLogEntryIdT	  *PrevEntryId,
	     SAHPI_OUT	 SaHpiEventLogEntryIdT	  *NextEntryId,
	     SAHPI_OUT	 SaHpiEventLogEntryT	  *EventLogEntry,
	     SAHPI_INOUT SaHpiRdrT		  *Rdr,
	     SAHPI_INOUT SaHpiRptEntryT 	  *RptEntry );

	 SaErrorT SAHPI_API saHpiEventLogClear (
	     SAHPI_IN  SaHpiSessionIdT	   SessionId,
	     SAHPI_IN  SaHpiResourceIdT    ResourceId );

SEE ALSO

AUTHORS

       Authors of this man page:

	Peter D Phan (pdphan@users.sourceforge.net)

2.14.1								    2009-11-23								  hpiel(1)
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