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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting for loop problem Post 302161662 by namishtiwari on Friday 25th of January 2008 09:49:07 AM
Old 01-25-2008
Thanks for all your replies.

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.

Last edited by namishtiwari; 01-25-2008 at 12:41 PM..
 

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SCANLOGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SCANLOGS(8)

NAME
       scanlogs - summarize INN log files.

SYNOPSIS
       scanlogs [ norotate ] [ nonn ]

DESCRIPTION
       Scanlogs  summarizes  the information recorded in the INN log files (see newslog(5)).  By default, it also rotates and cleans out the logs.
       It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script.

KEYWORDS
       The following keywords are accepted:

       norotate
	      Using this keyword disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the logs files are only scanned for  information
	      and no contents are altered.

       nonn   Normally the nn log file is scanned and rotated.	Using this keyword disables this function.

       If scanlogs is invoked more than once a day, the ``norotate'' keyword should be used to prevent premature log cleaning.

HISTORY
       Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO
       innd(8) newslog(5), news.daily(8), nnrpd(8).

																       SCANLOGS(8)
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