Okay, I think this is possible, but I can't quite figure it out. This is the situation.

A folder contains the log files of all the processes on my robot. The structure looks sort of like this:

$ ls -lrt total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 per per 4096 nov 3 12:46 launch01 -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 camera112.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 motors121.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 lidar111.log drwxrwxr-x 2 per per 4096 nov 3 12:49 launch02 -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 motors122.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 lidar211.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 camera113.log 

The files camera112.log, motors121.log and lidar111.log are associated to the logs in folder launch01. I would like to write a script that gets all the files that belong to a specific launch and tar them into one tarball. Since timestamps can change between slightly by files and the numbers in the files are only nearly related, I think the best way to gather all relevant files is to get all files which are below launch01 (inclusive), up to the next directory in the list (exclusive). The number of files can vary, as can the time stamps and names. What is consistent is the folder, then a bunch of files, then the next folder, then files, etc. Ultimately, I would like to get the latest set of logs easily.

Unsure of the approach here. Any ideas how to go about this?

Okay, I think this is possible, but I can't quite figure it out. This is the situation.

A folder contains the log files of all the processes on my robot. The structure looks sort of like this:

$ ls -lrt total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 per per 4096 nov 3 12:46 launch01 -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 camera112.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 motors121.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:47 lidar111.log drwxrwxr-x 2 per per 4096 nov 3 12:49 launch02 -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 motors122.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 lidar211.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 per per 0 nov 3 12:49 camera113.log 

The files camera112.log, motors121.log and lidar111.log are associated to the logs in folder launch01. I would like to write a script that gets all the files that belong to a specific launch and tar them into one tarball. Since timestamps can change between slightly by files and the numbers in the files are only nearly related, I think the best way to gather all relevant files is to get all files which are below launch01 (inclusive), up to the next directory in the list (exclusive). The number of files can vary, as can the time stamps and names. What is consistent is the folder, then a bunch of files, then the next folder, then files, etc. Ultimately, I would like to get the latest set of logs easily.

Unsure of the approach here. Any ideas how to go about this?

Clarifications:

• Number of files can vary.
• The exact timestamp is not reliable (as above, the folder launch01 is different than camera112.log) but relative timestamps work fine. For instance, if I could tar all files from launch01 (inclusive) to launch02 (exclusive) in the list provided by ls -lrt, that works great.