Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> It would be nice if the filenames would be automatically follow >> natural sorting criterias, like they would with NNN. >> >> > dateext >> > Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension >> > like >> > YYYYMMDD instead of simply adding a number. >> >> That would be alternative. but wouldn't help handling the numbered files. > > Pardon?
Clarification, existing numbered file where the scheme to change to use YYYYMMDD is not viable (e.g. co-admin of site) >> I would be nice if the filenames would automatically have sequence >> numbers that would be uniform, like NNN. Now the sort(1) command >> cannot be easily applied to the names > > Is not YYYYMMDD uniform (until the year 10000, at least)? Does it not sort > correctly? Yes. But it could be made possible with the normaly numbered log files as well. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]