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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script to copy apache log files to client directory Post 302851047 by Scott on Friday 6th of September 2013 12:52:49 PM
Old 09-06-2013
With your file naming convention it should be easy to pick up the most recent file:

Example:
Code:
$ touch client.20130731.tar.gz
$ touch client.20130831.tar.gz
$ touch client.20130630.tar.gz
$ set -- client.*
$ shift $(($#-1))
$ echo $1
client.20130831.tar.gz
cp $1 /some_location

Then run a simple cronjob:
Code:
0 0 2 * * /myscripttocopyfile

Where /myscripttocopyfile is:
Code:
cd /usr/home/www_logs                # cd to source directory - optional, you can 
set -- client.*                      # prepend it to the set command (i.e. set -- /var/.../client.*)
                                     # set -- puts the filenames into positional parameters $1, $2, etc.
shift $(($#-1))                      # remove all ($#) but 1 (-1) of the positional parameters
cp "$1" /usr/www/users/client/logs   # $1 is now the latest file (alphabetically); copy it to destination

Last edited by Scott; 09-06-2013 at 02:15 PM.. Reason: Edited prompt from # to $; added explanation of script
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NAME

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