Re: Untangling Log Files

Non-perl answer: Personally, I would use the unix grep command to extract the desired lines out of the log files, then redirect that output into another file, possibly with a sort wedged in the middle. This is on a unix box though, not sure what your OS is or if there's an equivalent set of commands for it.

Something like this:

grep -h process_identifier *.log | sort -options > process_identifier.
+newlog
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It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.

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Re^2: Untangling Log Files by loris (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2007 at 07:19 UTC
Your suggestion is pretty much what I am doing already, but I want to automate the process a bit more so that I can generate the all the process-specific log files at once. So I think I shall try something like jettero's solution. Thanks anyway, loris "It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma . . . twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other . . . and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret . . ." (from "Slow Loris" by Alexis Deacon)	[reply]
Re^3: Untangling Log Files by kwaping (Priest) on Feb 09, 2007 at 12:58 UTC
I see. Well, in "quick and dirty" style, you could wrap that system call in a `foreach my $process ('this','that','the other') { ... }` loop. --- It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.	[reply] [d/l]