1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a shell script that will gzip/tar/archive application logs that are over 20 days old which works just fine, but I would like to convert to a Perl script. Problem is, I'm a beginner with Perl and all attempts so far have failed. Basicaly I have a log dir /app/logs that contains several... (18 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am new to perl. I want to write a perl script to monitor logs. Where i want to monitor exceptions logged or any kind of error strings. I have a dir(On Solaris) with multiple log file which keeps rolling to .gz file after some time in that same dir. These logs files size keeps on... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

(I'm aware log rotation is a common subject, but I tried searching and couldn't find an answer) For some time now, I've been using the Logfile::Rotate module to rotate logs in a log-monitoring script. So far, I haven't experienced any problems, and it works great because I can use it in Linux... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Not a perl guru and need some help with a script I inherited. My perl script has a variable that is concatenated and works fine as is, but what I need is to remove a string in the output and input a files content. This is emailed as a html report and I can't get the file to output in the email... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to concatenate the texts in the file but there are different scenario's. Ist Scenario. The contents of file has id`language,sequence number,text,language Here id`language is a key pair to identify the correct language. Sequnce number is the order the text being inserted. Text... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi experts, I have some input like below, TEST A function W TEST A function X TEST B function Y TEST C function Z TEST C function ZY i would like to have below output, TEST A function W&X TEST B function Y TEST C function Z&ZY Please kindly help on this, i am cracking my head... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Experts, I have a question. Where are the vi logs are being stored. For example: any command used within vi editor using :! ,(ex: :! pwd ex: :! ls -l ), so where the vi writes the command logs , dont see in .sh_history file so wondering. Shell: /usr/bin/ksh Thanks, (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Appreciate help for the below issue. Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt.............. 1)if logs exist it should move the logs with extention... (1 Reply)