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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to compare a file by its timestamp and store in a different location whenever timestamp changes? Post 302541320 by mailsara on Saturday 23rd of July 2011 07:42:20 PM
Old 07-23-2011
How to compare a file by its timestamp and store in a different location whenever timestamp changes?
Hi All,
I am new to unix programming. I am trying for a requirement and the requirement goes like this.....

I have a test folder. Which tracks log files. After certain time, the log file is getting overwritten by another file (randomly as the time interval is not periodic). I need to preserve all the log files in a different folder with the timestamp before it gets overwritten.

Ex:
The log file contents and size varies with time
test/test1.log - 07/22/2011 13:01:11 ; 2 MB
test/test1.log - 07/22/2011 13:27:12 ; 2 MB
test/test1.log - 07/22/2011 14:27:09 ; 1.5 MB

I need to create a archive folder and preserve all these 3 files with their time stamp.

archive/test1.log_20110722130111
archive/test1.log_20110722132712
archive/test1.log_20110722142709


Any help on this is highly appreciated..

-Saravana
 

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file-roller(1)							   User Commands						    file-roller(1)

NAME

       file-roller - create, view, modify, or unpack an archive

SYNOPSIS

       file-roller  [--add]  [--add-to=archive]  [--default-dir=folder]  [--extract]  [--extract-here] [--extract-to=folder] [--force] [gnome-std-
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DESCRIPTION

       The File Roller application enables you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as  a  container  for
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OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d, --add		       Ask for the name of the archive, then add the files, then quit the application.

       -a, --add-to=archive	       Add files to the specified archive, then quit the application.

       --default-dir=folder	       Specify the default folder for the --add and --extract options.

       -f, --extract		       Ask for the name of the destination folder, then extract the files, then quit the application.

       -h, --extract-here	       Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program.

       -e, --extract-to=folder	       Extract archives to the specified folder, then quit the application.

       --force			       Create the destination folder without asking for confirmation.

       gnome-std-options	       Standard  options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more infor-
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EXAMPLES

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EXIT STATUS

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FILES

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       /usr/bin/file-roller    Executable for File Roller application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

       File Roller Manual

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NOTES

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