On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was > hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the > server certainly knows. it's not nice, but it works: alias pgtail='/bin/ls -1 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql*log | tail -n 1 | xargs tail -f' of course it has some assumptions: 1. your logs are in /var/log/postgresql/ directory (easy to change) 2. your logs are named in such way that sorting them alphabetically will sort them chronologically (i.e. %Y-%m-%d or something similar) (not easy to change) depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
