SOrt of a code sorting logic challenge:

Anyone have tips for ordering rotatelog2 lognames when loginterval changes? While archiving away older logs, my script must avoid archiving away the currently active log. I' have been using the max alpha file name to find the freshest (hence current & active) log to avoid 

CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs2 /var/logs/access_log_%y_%m_%d_%H_%M_
+%S  10800   -300" accesslogformat

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But due to naming magic of rotatelogs2, access_log_04_05_20_03_00_00 is fresher than access_log_04_05_20_03_30_00, even thoughit comes earlier in an alpha sort. While the log interval doesn't change often, it is changed occasionally, and hence this question

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In reply to ordring logrotate file names by Anonymous Monk

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