HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

evmsort(1) evmsort(1)

EXAMPLES

• The following example retrieves all events with a priority of 300 or greater, sorts them into descending

order of priority (most urgent event ﬁrst) and then ascending order of time (oldest event ﬁrst), and

automatically runs evmshow to display them.

evmget -f ’[priority >= 300]’ | evmsort -s "@priority-:@timestamp" |

evmshow -t "@priority @timestamp @@"

• The following example yields a list of all events, sorted with the latest event ﬁrst within

name.

evmget | evmsort -s "@name:@timestamp-" |

evmshow -t "@name @timestamp @@"

• The following example yields a list of all events, sorted ﬁrst in order of their formatted messages and

then sorted in ascending order of time. Events are passed to

evmshow for display and subsequently to

the

more command for viewing.

evmget | evmsort -A -s "@@:@timestamp" -t "@timestamp @@" | more

WARNINGS

The evmsort command rejects attempts to output raw events to a terminal device.