merge log files into a single file

merge.sh

#!/bin/sh

export MFILE=merge_file.txt
export SFILE=complete_file.txt

for file in `ls *.log`
do

cat $file >> $MFILE

done

# -k1,2 represents the fields in the file containing the timestamps
# for this example field 1 was the date and field 2 was the time
# customize accordingly
sort -k1,2 $MFILE > $SFILE
rm $MFILE