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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: buffer space
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:37:37 -0400
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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