Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear members,

I am on sun solaris 9.

I am looking for a KSH shell script that will find all log files created at least 3 month ago.

The idea is to scan 2 directories and get all log files created at least 3 month ago the present month and create by month and by type (RAP / ARCH ) a TAR file with all log files : exemple : download_12.2009.tar / archive_12.2009.tar ( 12 will mean december )

Exemple : We are on May, the script should look for all log files created beetween the 31 january and the max old file available.

here is the "ls - l" return value from the RAP directory :

Code:

-rw-------   1 master_val masterval    19893 Apr 16 12:43 download_file_SATURNE_R20100420.log

here is the "ls - l" return value from the ARCH directory :

Code:

-rw-------   1 master_val masterval    19893 Apr 16 12:43 archive_file_SATURNE_R20100420.log

Thanks for your help.

you can achieve it using find command.. there is one option called -mtime in find command.
refer man page for more info and please give it a try :-)

look into the find util. You can use this to build your selection array for tar, etc...

Code:

find $path_to_scan -type f -ctime +90 [-name "*REGEX_to_USE*" ]...

For example, I like this kind of thing:

Code:

tar cvpf - $(find $path_to_scan -type f -ctime +90 [-name "*REGEX_to_USE*" ]... ) |gzip -9 - >/archive_path/output.tgz

Dear posters,

thanks for your help. In other way I have to say that I am not as good as you are on shell script. I did try to search anwser on the web before to post my request by I did not managed to make it work.

I will try your help, but could you please, if you can tell me what mean :

Code:

*REGEX_to_USE

Thanks

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Hello,

I have tried to use the command :

Code:

find $path_to_scan -type f -ctime +90

but is not working as I want. All files that could fit the need were not all detected.

I tried the -ctime and -mtime but this give me the same result anyway.

May I ask for a function if you already have one working for solaris ?

Thanks.