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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting for loop problem Post 302161654 by namishtiwari on Friday 25th of January 2008 08:54:57 AM
Old 01-25-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by V3l0
Hello,

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.
 

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BF_TAR(1)																 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
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       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
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EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	  Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	  Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

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NOTES

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