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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to Tar file in a specific Directory Post 302991375 by Loc on Thursday 9th of February 2017 04:29:19 PM
Old 02-09-2017
Script to Tar file in a specific Directory
I'm trying to write a Unix script that will go to a specific directory (/tmp/Sanbox/logs) and tar.gz all the log files in that directory and delete the original files that are older than 2 days. So far I have this but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

Code:
 
 #!/bin/bash

AGE_TO_COMPRESS="172800" # 172800 seconds = 2 days
LOG_FILES="export/home/H0166015/Sandbox/logs"

# Any file older than EDGE_DATE must be compressed
NOW=$( date +%s )
EDGE_DATE=$(( NOW - AGE_TO_COMPRESS ))

for file in $LOG_FILES ; do
    # check if file exists
    if [ -e "$file" ] ; then

        # compare "modified date" of file to EDGE_DATE
        if [ $( stat -c %Y "$file" ) -gt ${EDGE_DATE} ] ; then

            # create tar file of a single file
            tar -cvzf $file.tar.gz $file --remove-files
        fi
    fi
done

 

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virt-tar-out(1) 					      Virtualization Support						   virt-tar-out(1)

NAME

       virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

       The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use "-" to
       write to standard output.

EXAMPLES

       Download the home directories from a guest:

	virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
       copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

AUTHORS

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

COPYRIGHT

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