Thanks - but that doesn't work - the output is "unsorted", still contains the timestamp which I don't need.
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Regards,
Ian
That is strange. By default, the output from ls is sorted by filename and (as long as the character(s) in your log file names before the date stamp is(are) constant) the output should be in sorted order. And, tail won't rearrange the output order, and the for loop won't rearrange the output order. Are there hidden characters in your filenames? Did you pass options to ls that I didn't use? Is there a filename ending with .log. followed by three digits that has a minus sign as its first character?
I didn't see your additional requirement to strip out the timestamp until after I submitted my response. You already have suggestions on how to deal with that (as long as the last lines of your log files don't contain adjacent sequences of multiple spaces and tabs that you don't mind being converted to single spaces).
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Don't want to take too much of your time - given that I have a result - however, to answer your points:
I copied & executed your code exactly from your reply - and pasted the output. As far as I know, there are no hidden characters, no minus signs and nothing added.
Interestingly, if I execute the bracketed ls statement, I get this:
this lists them top to bottom, left to right
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looking at the output from the whole command, it is presenting the files in left to right top to bottom from the above output - if you know what I mean - ie the top row of the output above is represented as the start of the output below....
Don't know why that would be. I tried adding "-l" to the bracketed command - to list one file per line, but that failed spectacularly!
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Ian
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When ls output is directed into a pipe (or, for that matter, anything that is not directed to a terminal), the standards require it to produce one filename per output line; nothing at all like what you showed in your last post!
On the machine from which the output has been taken:
I'm not making it up - the results are absolutely copied & pasted from the live server I happen to be working on at the moment - I'll try it elsewhere when I have the opportunity.
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Regards,
Ian
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Here's another:
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Same thing:
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The output you are showing would be what one would expect if you had an alias installed for ls that was defined by:
What do the commands:
print for you?
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