I have a directory with log files. I want to process the last 13 of them (past quarter). I can't use a wildcard using Goaccess because I don't want to include all of them, just the last 13 generated weeks' worth.
I have an array of the filenames of those last 13 files, but I don't know the syntax for the Goaccess command to include those files. I can't find any reference as to how to do this, as all notes I've seen refer to using a wildcard. I don't want to start copying and moving files around. There should be a way of doing this in the command line with multiple filenames which I can generate just fine.
How can I use a multiple logname input syntax in Goaccess?
Something like:
/usr/local/bin/goaccess -p /users/rich/things/goaccess.conf log1.log log2.log log3.log -o qreport.html
MULTIPLE LOG FILES
There are several ways to parse multiple logs with GoAccess. The simplest is to pass multiple log files to the command line:
goaccess access.log access.log.1
In your case, you need to process only the last three generated file so you can get the last three file using ls. The final command will become
/usr/local/bin/goaccess -p /users/rich/things/goaccess.conf $(ls -t log* | head -3 | tr '\r\n' ' ') -o qreport.html
This will process the last three files that is started with log