On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:12 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >> 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) > > Hmm what about just "ls -tu" > > Which if I am reading the man page correctly sorts by last access time. ls -tr1 filename*|tail -n 1 will give you the most recently modified file. -tu will give you the file last accessed which may or may not be the file you want. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
