linux newbie...Q: how to find files and sort by time

chucker8 · 05-12-2006, 02:59 PM

I want to search for all files on the system ending in .log, and have the results sorted by most recently modified

find / -name '*.log' | ?

thanks!

pljvaldez · 05-12-2006, 03:55 PM

Does the following work for you

Code:

ls -t `find / -name "*.log"`

Note I have to run it as root or I get a lot of errors about permission denied...

pljvaldez · 05-12-2006, 04:06 PM

On a side question, I just noticed my output shows different values for different files. Some logs have a time stamp of Month Day Time and others have a Month Day Year... Weird.

Does anyone know why some files are MDT and some are MDY? The break seems to be anything created before Dec 1, 2005 is Month Day Year and anything after Dec 1, 2005 is Month Day Time. I think I did a dist-upgrade from woody to sarge around that time...

chucker8 · 05-12-2006, 04:28 PM

yeah, that works for me:

find / -name '*.log'

But, the results are not sorted by most recently modified. I'm troubleshooting WebLogic 8.1, so I want to see what log files the server is writing to.

thanks

pljvaldez · 05-12-2006, 04:37 PM

You missed the ls -t `find / -name "*.log"` part...

ioerror · 05-12-2006, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pljvaldez

Some logs have a time stamp of Month Day Time and others have a Month Day Year... Weird.

Files will have Month-Day-Time until they are 6 months old, then it's just MDY. This is just a convention of ls, of course. I suppose the rationale is that when a file is old, you're not that bothered what time of day it was modified, and at some point, you want to know the year.

pljvaldez · 05-12-2006, 05:01 PM

Thanks ioerror, learn something new everyday!