NAME
cronosplit - split log files into cronolog-compatible
files
SYNOPSIS
cronosplit --template=TEMPLATE
[--print-invalid] [--help] [--version] file ...
DESCRIPTION
cronosplit is a simple program that
reads lines from a set of input log files, which must be in
Common Log Format and write each lines to an output files,
the name of which is constructed using the template
specified and timestamp from the the line. The template uses the
same format specifiers as the Unix date(1)
command (which are the same as the standard C strftime library
function).
Options
accepts the following options and arguments:
- --template=TEMPLATE
- specifies the template for the output log files (using the
format specifiers described below).
- --verbose
- print additional status messages to the standard error stream.
- --debug
- print debug messages to the standard error stream.
- --help
- print a help message and then exit.
- --version
- print version information and exit.
Template format
Each character in the template represents a
character in the expanded filename, except for date and time format
specifiers, which are replaced by their expansion. Format
specifiers consist of a `%' followed by one of the following
characters:
- %
- a literal % character
- n
- a new-line character
- t
- a horizontal tab character
Time fields:
- H
- hour (00..23)
- I
- hour (01..12)
- p
- the locale's AM or PM indicator
- M
- minute (00..59)
- S
- second (00..61, which allows for leap seconds)
- X
- the locale's time representation (e.g.: "15:12:47")
- Z
- time zone (e.g. GMT), or nothing if the time zone cannot be
determined
Date fields:
- a
- the locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g.: Sun..Sat)
- A
- the locale's full weekday name (e.g.: Sunday .. Saturday)
- b
- the locale's abbreviated month name (e.g.: Jan .. Dec)
- B
- the locale's full month name, (e.g.: January .. December)
- c
- the locale's date and time (e.g.: "Sun Dec 15 14:12:47 GMT
1996")
- d
- day of month (01 .. 31)
- j
- day of year (001 .. 366)
- m
- month (01 .. 12)
- U
- week of the year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53,
where week 1 is the week containing the first Sunday of the year)
- W
- week of the year with Monday as first day of week (00..53,
where week 1 is the week containing the first Monday of the year)
- w
- day of week (0 .. 6, where 0 corresponds to Sunday)
- x
- locale's date representation (e.g. today in Britain:
"12/04/96")
- y
- year without the century (00 .. 99)
- Y
- year with the century (1970 .. 2038) Other specifiers may be
available depending on the C library's implementation of the
strftime function.
SEE ALSO
apache(1m)
cronolog(1m)
date(1)
(3)
(5)
More information and the latest version of cronolog and
cronosplit can be obtained from
http://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/cronolog/
If you have any suggestions, bug reports, fixes, or
enhancements, please mail them to the author.
More about Apache
Documentation for the Apache http server
is available from
http://www.apache.org
AUTHOR
Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>
cronosplit is based on a script called splitlog by
Roy Fielding, which is part of the wwwstat package.