I occasionally have to dig through logs of various kinds... tomcat, apache, java programs (log4j),....
And I've wondered if I should write this tool, or maybe it exists. Is there something that will tell me when there are gaps in a log file? I would specify the format of the date/time info, then specify how big a gap I want to know about, and it would scan, ripping out the date/time & do the date math and when it got a big enough time gap between messages it would tell me. Maybe it would print the line number the gap started on and the start and stop date. Pipe a grep into this command and it could be a really powerful way to gain some insight into my logs. I keep being surprised by the tools available in unix.... ggrep with -A and -B (awesome), I almost wrote xargs years ago until someone told me about it, .... Maybe this one already exists and my google-fu isn't strong enough to find it. I could write it in perl myself, but I'd rather not if I don't have to. :) Any thoughts? Eric _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
