--On 9 June 2010 00:05:14 +0200 Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think, exigrep should sort it's output by the time of the records
> (time completed? time first notice?)… While thinking about this I've
> added just a small change to have exigrep at least sort the filenames
> by the modification dates of the files.
>
> --- /usr/sbin/exigrep 2008-09-30 20:57:42.000000000 +0200
> +++ /tmp/exigrep 2010-06-09 00:02:04.000000000 +0200
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
>
> if (@ARGV)
> {
> - foreach (@ARGV)
> + foreach (sort { -M $b <=> -M $a } @ARGV)
> {
> my $filename = $_;
> if ($filename =~ /\.(?:gz)$/o)
>
>
> If there are no objections I'd like to ask having this change in one of
> the next exim releases.
>
> (I know, I could have sorted the files on the command line already…)
Interesting. My files are always sorted OK when grepping. Probably because
I use globs to specify them, and name them with iso dates yyyy-mm-dd, which
naturally sort properly. Still, this is a useful enhancement.
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards from Dresden/Germany
> Viele Grüße aus Dresden
> Heiko Schlittermann
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