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04-26-2007

anbu23

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Quote:

Originally Posted by logic0

output of /tmp/log is like
./access.log
./logs/access.log

in command i see using

while read file

file is the /tmp/log ?

Replace dot by actual path

Code:

find <path_to_directory> -size +1000000 -exec ls -l {} \; > /tmp/logs

Code:

dt=$( date +%Y%M%d )
while read file
do
    cp ${file} "${file}_${dt}"
    : > ${file}
done < /tmp/logs