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Old 09-25-2003
Script to tar up old log files
Hell All! I need help writing a script for my job. I never really wrote alot of scripts but I guess it a first time for everything. I need to write a simple script that goes out to our log file directory on our servers and tar and compress them. I need to know how to add an date time stamp to tell which logs to tar up and compress. Can someone please help me wiht this?
# 2  
Old 09-25-2003
Any chance you can show us what you have ???
# 3  
Old 09-25-2003
Don't know, but maybe :


mkdir /dir/to/my/path/tmp

for i in `find /dir/to/my/path -type f -mtime +10`
do
mv $i /dir/to/my/path/tmp
done

tar cvf /tmp/backup_file.tar /dir/to/my/path/tmp
rm -r /dir/to/my/path/tmp

Regs David
# 4  
Old 09-25-2003
Quote:
I need to know how to add an date time stamp to tell which logs to tar up and compress
As Davidg has shown in his example, you can find a set of files by evaluationg the modification time for the file. Check out the find and look specifically at the -mtime flag.
# 5  
Old 09-26-2003
Thank You
I want to say Thank You to the members that help me out with my question. I finish my script and it works great. Thank you all. Smilie
# 6  
Old 02-17-2008
hi aojmoj...

is it okay if you can post your script here???

Thanks & congrats you manage to create your script... Smilie
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