Re: logrotation
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:50:22PM +0100, Robert Collier wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:12:07PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > I find the ".log" extension redundant here. After all, it's a
> > log directory, right? It's like having /bin/ls.bin ... Reminds me
> > of .exe extensions too much.
>
> But, it is very usefull in that it allows one to do:
>
> cd /var/log
> tail -f *.log
>
> ie. tail all logfiles, until shell expansion allows me to tail
> everything except *.gz haveing a common extension is usefull.
(bash)
shopt -s extglob
tail -f !(*.gz)
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Conrad Parker conradp@cse.unsw.edu.au
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