i want to get the latest file from the directory ...
then extract the specific lines from it(the latest file which i extracted) starting from the charcters ...INSTANCEID ...Program started at.... program ended at ....
i want to do it for the multiple dirctories at the same time
You really did not provide much detail - examples of input and desired output. However, the following should get you started. See what you can write of a script, and post back follow-up questions.
Either of the following will give you the latest (most recent file). There are many ways to find this out, by the way.
you can set a variable for the results, with
A script can then cat or head or grep on $file1
I would suggest trying to do this for one file. Once you can do that, it is farily easy to insert the command(s) into a loop function.
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'
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if i give ls -lrt for all the files in that diretory
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