Re: Untangling Log Files

[kwaping]

Non-perl answer: Personally, I would use the unix grep command to extract the desired lines out of the log files, then redirect that output into another file, possibly with a sort wedged in the middle. This is on a unix box though, not sure what your OS is or if there's an equivalent set of commands for it.

Something like this:

grep -h process_identifier *.log | sort -options > process_identifier.
+newlog

[loris]

Your suggestion is pretty much what I am doing already, but I want to automate the process a bit more so that I can generate the all the process-specific log files at once. So I think I shall try something like jettero's solution.

Thanks anyway,

loris

[kwaping]

I see. Well, in "quick and dirty" style, you could wrap that system call in a foreach my $process ('this','that','the other') { ... } loop.