On Monday 17 August 2009 02:46:30 pm Norman Mark St. Laurent wrote:
Depending if you are using logrotate.d/audit and how it numbers the
files as it rotates...
audit.log.1.gz
audit.log.2.gz
...
audit.log.89.gz
audit.log.90.gz
The sort below will but the list in exact order....
zcat `ls /var/log/audit/*.gz | sort -t. --key=3,2n` | ausearch -i
For this to work right, it has to be in descending order. So, add a -r to the
sort command.
-Steve