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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Archiving or removing few data from log file in real time Post 302907370 by Corona688 on Friday 27th of June 2014 11:40:48 AM
Old 06-27-2014
Deleting all the data would be easy, but half? Hmm.

What is making this logfile? Many daemons allow you to send a signal to them when you want to change the logfile, which would at least let you deal with the file without it stomping it several times a second.
 

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