Re: Current log files when rotating?

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:12 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> > strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was
> > hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the
> > server certainly knows.
>
> it's not nice, but it works:
> alias pgtail='/bin/ls -1 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql*log | tail -n 1 | xargs tail -f'
>
> of course it has some assumptions:
> 1. your logs are in /var/log/postgresql/ directory (easy to change)
> 2. your logs are named in such way that sorting them alphabetically will
> sort them chronologically (i.e. %Y-%m-%d or something similar) (not easy
> to change)

Hmm what about just "ls -tu"

Which if I am reading the man page correctly sorts by last access time.

Joshua D. Drake


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