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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Archive and purge the log file Post 302821385 by johney1981 on Friday 14th of June 2013 12:57:51 PM
Old 06-14-2013
Archive and purge the log file
Hi Unix Experts,

I am new in this filed.

I have assignment to Archive and purge the log file using shell scripts I tried I could not get the result please help me this.

Ex: test.log
requirement : using shell script I need to archive the log file and nil and the content of (test.log) file to 0 kb

and then in the archive folder log files are name to test.tar
test1.tar
test2.tar

EX:

/home/abc/
test.log 20000MB
after nil (content of file 0kb)

test.log 0kb


archive log file moved to

/home/abc/archive/

test.tar
test1.tar
test2.tar
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

archive_read_new

ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)

NAME

     archive_read_new -- functions for reading streaming archives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_read_new(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive.  NULL is returned on error.

     A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO

     tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3),
     tar(5)

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