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 or NCSA Combined/XLF/ELF 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

       cronosplit accepts the following options and arguments:

       --template=TEMPLATE
              specifies the template for the output log files (using the format specifiers described below).

       --print-invalid
              print invalid log file entries to the standard error stream.

       --utime
              update modification time of output file according to last parsed log entry.

       --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) strftime(3) environ(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.

                                                   March 1998                                     cronosplit(1m)