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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For/While Loop to Increment Filenames in a Script Post 302724315 by metallica1973 on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 01:32:27 PM

10-31-2012

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thank you Corona688. Unfortunately the script stays in the loop

Code:

#!/bin/bash

inc_log() {
        set -- manager.log*
        while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
        do
                old=$#
                let new=old+1
                echo cp manager.log$old manager.log$new
        done

        echo cp manager.log manager.log1
        #echo ":>" manager.log # Truncate manager.log
}

man_log=/home/saint/manager.log

        if [ -s "manager.log" ]; then

        inc_log

        echo "finished"
fi
exit

Code:

cp manager.log1 manager.log2
cp manager.log1 manager.log2
cp manager.log1 manager.log2
cp manager.log1 manager.log2^C

I was told by the administrator of the server that his script only runs while booting up the server and this is what he wanted. I had a brain hickup and forgot the basic stuff in shell script(loops). thanks for the help

---------- Post updated at 01:32 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:19 PM ----------

Will give this a shot. Many Thanks

Last edited by Scott; 10-31-2012 at 02:42 PM.. Reason: Fixed code tag

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evmchmgr

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

NAME

       evmchmgr - Event Manager channel manager

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/evmchmgr [-c config_file] [-l log_file]

OPTIONS

       Sets the configuration file to config_file.  The default is /etc/evmchannel.conf.  Sets message output to log_file.  The default is stderr.
       When the channel manager starts it renames any previous message file by appending .old to its name, and creates a new file.

OPERANDS

       None

DESCRIPTION

       The EVM channel manager is started automatically by the EVM daemon, and usually should not be run as a stand-alone program.  It reads a set
       of  channel  definitions from the channel configuration file and executes the commands defined as the monitor and cleanup functions for any
       channel, at the configured intervals.  There is no requirement for any channel to be configured with either of the periodic functions;  the
       channel manager ignores any channels which have neither.

       By  default, the channel manager reads its configuration from /etc/evmchannel.conf.  The -c flag can be used to override this. If the chan-
       nel configuration file is changed while the channel manager is running, the evmreload -c command should be used to instruct it to reconfig-
       ure itself.

       The channel manager reconfigures itself when evmreload -c is run, or upon receipt of a SIGHUP signal.

EXIT VALUES

       The following exit values are returned: Successful completion An error occurred

FILES

       Executable file Default channel configuration file Default channel manager log file

SEE ALSO

       Commands: evmd(8), evmreload(8), evmstart(8), evmstop(8), kill(1)

       Files: evmchannel.conf(4)

       Event Management: EVM(5)

       EVM Events: EvmEvent(5)

       Event Filter: EvmFilter(5)
       delim off

																       evmchmgr(8)

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