Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:42:31PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Must be so because
>> 
>>  $ zgrep "2018.*.install " /var/log/dpkg* 
>> 
>> gives no output and so with 2017, 2016 and 2015, whereas for 2019 and 2020
>> there is output...
>
> You can use ls -l to see the datestamps on the files.
>
> You can zcat the oldest one, and pipe that through head, to see the
> oldest entries in the oldest file.  That'll tell you where your cutoff
> point is, more precisely than the datestamps (which will tell you the
> end of each individual file, but not the beginning).


Yes, thanks...  So turns it out to be only just May 2019 the cutoff point...

rodolfo