Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:53:32 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fun Scripting Problem Message-ID: <511BE12C.204@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA7EBB@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <511BDB13.3060005@tundraware.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA7EBB@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
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On 02/13/2013 12:38 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > (apologies for top-post) > > As tempted as I am, I think newsyslog(8) may be what you want. > > Missing information in your post is how you intend to timestamp the files -- by filename? by content? If by-content, then is it a good assumption that the data is one entry per-line? ... and if-so, is the timestamp in that line? These are all questions that would be needed to script what you're asking for (not that I'm volunteering or anything like that). > The only way to determine the date of the file is by looking at its stat info. There is nothing the file name or content that could be used to infer this. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk
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