On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tim Larson wrote: > On 11/11/2003 12:05 PM, Jeremy Wadsack felt like writing: > > > Under Unix, it's simple enough to use the date command to generate > > matching dates for your log files. You can do this similarly in WSH on > > Windows. > > That's what I'm doing now. Not hard, just tedious. And seemingly > unnecessary since I supply the from and to dates, a log name format, and > we happen to have a calendar system with consistent rules. It feels like > I'm giving someone a map and instructions to drive from here to Chicago, > but still having to specify right|left|straight for every intersection > along the way. >
Yes, but the problem is, you use one logfile naming convention, but other people use other conventions. Imagine if you only rotated your logfiles weekly, for example -- the rules would be different. The only alternative would be for you to specify in the config file the date range covered by each logfile, which would be just as tedious. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
