Hi,

I have a folder which contain the log files. The folder may contain sub folders as well. I want to move the contents of the log folder to tmp folder periodically. I have used the command.

LOG_DIR=/logs

DESTINATION_DIR=/tmp/logs

find ${LOG_DIR} -mtime +1 -exec mv {} ${DESTINATION_DIR} \;

but, the problem is that this command moves all the files in the same folder and source folder structure (sub-folders) is not maintained in the destination directory.

Any ideas? or some other way to do this

Regards,
Muhammad Farooq

add these options to your find command:

No success, as it gives 'bad Option -maxdepth' error.

Actually, my scenerio is that I have a folder name 'Messages' and contains subfolders 'message1', 'message2', 'message3', 'message4' and so on. I want to move the folder Messages to the destination directory say 'Logs' and want that directory structure in the destination remains the same. But, when i use the above find command, all the files in the subfolder are placed in the same folder.
Is there any other way through which i can move files older than, say 5 days, to another location, while maintaining the directory structure of the source

How about this?

Can anyone please explain what the following line is doing :

dest=$(basename "$file" | sed 's/Messages/Logs/')
[ -d "$dest" ] || mkdir -p "$dest"

Actually, I made a mistake. :-) I edited my post to correct it, but obviously wasn't fast enough. Anyway, my update was also incorrect...

Let's say you have a file, Messages/message3/someoldlogfile.log, dirname would pull out the "Messages/message3" component, and sed converts it to "Logs/message3".

The second line tests whether this directory exists, and if not, creates it.

thanks for reply,
what is this s for in 'sed s/Messages/Logs/'

Also, i have a source folder and destination folder in a variable, so how would i replace that in a above command

$SRC_DIR=/var/opt/Messages

probably shomething like below?
dest=$(dirname "$file" | sed 's/${SRC_DIR}/Logs/')