First, when you select "*log*", you don't have to select "*.log*" beacause they are already in the first selection !
Second, why "touching" the file before deleting it ?
Third, your script will be runnig with "unable to remove file xxx" beacause of the command "rm -f $filestodelete" that will delete all the files selected by "for files in (*log*|*.log*)"
So, I propose you the script :
Code:
list=$(ls *log*)
for file in $list
do
cp $file $file.$(date +%a)
rm -f $file
done
First, when you select "*log*", you don't have to select "*.log*" beacause they are already in the first selection !
Second, why "touching" the file before deleting it ?
Third, your script will be runnig with "unable to remove file xxx" beacause of the command "rm -f $filestodelete" that will delete all the files selected by "for files in (*log*|*.log*)"
So, I propose you the script :
Code:
list=$(ls *log*)
for file in $list
do
cp $file $file.$(date +%a)
rm -f $file
done
you gave me good suggestions.Thanks..
i have to touch the file because we have some processes running that need to pick that blank file otherwise we need to restart the aaplication again if i deleted the file without touching it.cp will unnecessarily increase the size.
list=$(ls *log*)
for file in $list
do
cp $file $file.$(date +%a)
rm -f $file
done
i have to touch the file because we have some processes running that need to pick that blank file otherwise we need to restart the aaplication again if i deleted the file without touching it.cp will unnecessarily increase the size.
What about moving the file and touching a new one:
Code:
for file in `ls *log*`
do
mv $file $file.`date +%a` && touch $file || echo "Can not backup $file";
done
but i got a problem here-- my script is like this--
Code:
BackupLocation="$OPTARG"
if [[ $BackupLocation != *backup ]]; then
echo "Appending backup subdirectories"
BackupLocation=$BackupLocation/backup
mkdir -p $BackupLocation >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? != 0 ]];then
echo "First Create The Directory And Then Take backup"
fi
cd $FileLocation
pwd
cp -R $FilesToDelete $BackupLocation
list=$(ls *log*)
for files in $list
do
rm -f $files
touch $files.$(date +%a)
done
else
mkdir -p $BackupLocation >/dev/null 2>&1
cp -R $FilesToDelete $BackupLocation
for files in $list
do
rm -f $files
touch $files.$(date +%a)
done
if [[ ! -d $BackupLocation ]]; then
echo "Unable to make backup directory: $BackupLocation"
if [[ $IsCronJob -eq 1 ]]; then
SendMiddleTierCleanMail "Middletierclean error message" $mt_clean_errfile
fi
here it will touch the file again and again and appending the day after the file name again like->
ansrpt26529.log.Fri.Fri.Fri.Fri
but i do not want it like that.
i have to take backup of the file.then touch it and delete the file.
the pattern matching for the files to delete is
list=$(ls *log*)
it is selecting all the files ansrpt26529.log.Fri.Fri.Fri.Fri like this but i do not want it like this it sould be only ansrpt26529.log.Fri.
pattern matching may be diffrent here so give me some suggestions to solve this problem.
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