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You can combine 2 awk steps into one .....

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ls -lt *.log | awk '{ if (NR > 3) print substr($9,1,14) }' | sort -u

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if you just want the filenames (and do not need the other fields), you can just do this:
ls -t *log|tail +3
this will give all files except the latest two. besides, awk is slower than this

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