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Old 01-25-2008
namishtiwari namishtiwari is offline Forum Advisor  
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for loop problem

Hi,
I have a directory called logs in which i have the log files.

i have to touch the file before deleting it.

i am doing like this
filestodelete="*.log* *log*"

for files in $filestodelete
do
touch $files $files.$(date +%a)
rm -f $filestodelete
done

touch is not working here,means it is not touching the file before deleting it.
kindly help me out in this.

Last edited by namishtiwari; 01-25-2008 at 09:32 AM..