Concatenating All Log Files But Last One

[Five By Five]

I am trying to write a CMD batch file script that concatenates the text
(lines) of ALL BUT LAST ONE the files (Apache logs) in time order.

1. Assume the batch (.bat) file is in the same directory
2. Assume the files are named "prefix-ddmmmmyyyy.log" where 'prefix-' and
'.log' are unvarying characters in the file name.

How would that be done?

The last file is actively being written to by the server, which is why I
don't concatenate.

[Auric__]

Five By Five wrote (in comp.os.msdos.programmer):

I have nothing useful to add, except to point you at alt.msdos.batch.nt,
where the batch experts dwell. (Followup-to set accordingly.)

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[Herbert Kleebauer]

On 09.04.2013 08:28, Auric__ wrote:
> > Five By Five wrote (in comp.os.msdos.programmer):
> >
>> >> I am trying to write a CMD batch file script that concatenates the text
>> >> (lines) of ALL BUT LAST ONE the files (Apache logs) in time order.
>> >>
>> >> 1. Assume the batch (.bat) file is in the same directory
>> >> 2. Assume the files are named "prefix-ddmmmmyyyy.log" where 'prefix-' and
>> >> '.log' are unvarying characters in the file name.
>> >>
>> >> How would that be done?

If the file dates are in the same order than the dates
in the file name, you can use:

@echo off
set list=nul
set last=
for /f %%i in ('dir /b /od *.log') do (
if defined last call set list=%%list%%+%%last%%
set last=%%i)
copy /b %list% all.txt

[Five By Five]

Herbert Kleebauer <kl...@unibwm.de> wrote on Tue 09 Apr 2013 12:39:15a

Impressive. That worked nicely. Thanks