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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search, Tar and Compress in one line Post 302153631 by bluesky099 on Wednesday 26th of December 2007 12:41:06 AM
Old 12-26-2007
Question Search, Tar and Compress in one line
Hi all,

I am supposed to collect a huge amount of log files from a unix system (HP-UX) onto a local system. The log files are not in one place, but they are scattered all over the Unix server. The unix server has only limited space, so that I can not create a tar file first and then compress it. I am trying to do something like tar -cvf | gzip -c but it fails due to spaces in the file name.
The command I am trying is:
find /BaseDirectory -name "*.log" | xargs tar -cvf | gzip -c > AllLogFiles.tgz
I am getting errors like:
tar: cannot stat ./BACKUP/24-11-2007. Not dumped.
tar: cannot stat 02.52.45-BACKUP.log. Not dumped.
tar: cannot stat ./BACKUP/24-11-2007. Not dumped.
tar: cannot stat 02.56.40-BACKUP.log. Not dumped.
tar: cannot stat ./BACKUP/24-11-2007. Not dumped.

Is it because of spaces or hyphens in the file name? Or am I trying a wrong command? (Original filenames are like "24-11-2007 02.53.32-BACKU.log")

Alternatively, Is there any way that I can collect all *.log files into one compressed file (so that the command doesn't error out due to lack of space while collecting log files)? The actual archive type is not important, it could be gzip, compress, pack or anything.

Thanks for reading my query, and have a nice day/evening.
 

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grablogs.conf

grablogs.conf(4)						   File Formats 						  grablogs.conf(4)

NAME

       grablogs.conf - grablogs configuration for libgrablogs.so of the plugins of
	gnome-system-log file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  libgrablogs.so  is	a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it colloct the log files from the system as many as possible. grablogs.conf is a
       configuration file that contains a set of lines mixed with sh(1) syntax codes and individual
	log files. libgrablogs.so will read the file try to get a log files list for
	gnome-system-log(1). Users can copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to overwrite the system default one.

       The grablogs.conf file contains the following configuration categories:

	      [configs]
		     Each line under this category is interpreted as a config file of System. The plugin will open the config file and try to find
		     all system paths of the logs.

	      [commands]
		     Each line under this category is interpreted as a shell command and will be execute through a pipe. And each line of the out-
		     put of the command will be interpreted as a log path.

	      [logs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a log path.

FILES

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
	      The system default configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so

       $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p`/grablogs.conf
	      The user specific configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so

EMAMPLE

       [configs]
       /etc/syslog.conf
       [commands]
       for i in `svcs -aH -o FMRI | grep -v lrc `; do svcprop -p restarter/logfile $i  2>/dev/null  ||	svcprop  -q  -p  restarter/alt_logfile	$i
       2>/dev/null ; done
       [logs]
       /var/log/messages
       /var/log/secure
       /var/log/maillog
       /var/log/cron
       /var/log/Xorg.0.log
       /var/log/XFree86.0.log
       /var/log/auth.log
       /var/log/cups/error_log

SEE ALSO

       gnome-system-log(1), pipelog.conf(1)

gnome-utils 2.16.0						    13 Oct 2006 						  grablogs.conf(4)
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