copying between interval

scofiled83 · 04-04-2009, 12:00 AM

Hi

when I issue "ls -lrt" I see that there are too many logfiles.
What I want to do is copy some logs from this place to another file.

For example:

ls -lrt

.
.
.
.
******1023***
******1024***
******1025***
******1026***
******1027***
.
.
.
.

I want to copy logs from 1023 to 1027 to another file.
How can i do that?

GrapefruiTgirl · 04-04-2009, 12:48 AM

More specifics may help you get a more specific answer, but:

Code:

for stuff in 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027; do
echo -e "`cat $stuff`" >> another-file
done;

scofiled83 · 04-04-2009, 02:06 AM

Hmmm
The filenames are something like:

acrabdbad1023_danjnad
dffrabdat1024_bnchski
...
...
...

Does it again work?
and
Do I need to specify the all number? There might be quite a lot,Can I just specify the first and last ones.
For examaple:
1023...1027 (something like that)

because it might be 1023 to 1100.

ntubski · 04-04-2009, 09:36 AM

Assuming bash:

Code:

for file in *{1023..1027}_*; do
  cat "$file" >> another-file
done

chrism01 · 04-04-2009, 07:42 PM

Maybe you should look into logrotate ?

ghostdog74 · 04-04-2009, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ntubski

Assuming bash:

Code:

for file in *{1023..1027}_*; do
  cat "$file" >> another-file
done

Code:

cat *{1023..1027}_*  >> another_file