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Andrew J Caines schrieb:,

> While this sounds ambitious, I would hope that code could be swiped from
> date(1) and/or other utilities and incorporated without great difficulty.
> At a pinch, you could just call date.

strftime does all the magic work for us,
but I don't know how to tweek it in the configuration file.
Wiout top break the syntax with older entrys.

> Oh, while you're at it, how about doing it in perl so I can slap it on my
> Solaris boxes?

I uses a shell/awk mix to do this on some machines :)

$ ls /var/log/*.0 | awk '{print "mv " $1 " " substr( $1, 1, index( $1, ".0" ) ) strftime("%Y-%M-%d")}'


kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany

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