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# 8  
Old 10-26-2012
Suggestion: I think the best approach here is to re-write your script so that it will create a new log file every day and append to it (use date +"%Y%m%d" to name your file). This way you can use find command to find & delete logs that are more than 2 days old.
Last edited by Yoda; 10-26-2012 at 01:55 PM..
# 9  
Old 10-26-2012
Can you try this
Code:
/usr/bin/stat -c "%W" wpar_monitor_2days.log

If this doesn't work, i guess stat is not available on your system...you can check the availability using
Code:
which stat

Quote:
Originally Posted by aix_admin_007
msabhi@ giving error
# stat -c "%W" wpar_monitor_2days.log
ksh: stat: not found
# 10  
Old 10-26-2012
Solution
created log file with extension wpar_monitor_mail_txt.$$, And that way find and remove works...
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