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Old 08-26-2010
purge logs, keep the 30 lasts
Hi,

I have to make a script to purge logs in a directory (this script will run automatically every day) and this script has to keep just the 30 last files.
So I want it to count all the files in the directory, find the 30 most recents and delete the others.

I just started shell scripting and I'm not very good ^^
I tried this :
Code:
#!/bin/sh
FIND=/opt/csw/bin/gfind
DIR=<path to the directory where logs are>
DIR2=<path where the script is>
CREATE_FILE=`ls -ltr $DIR|cut -c54- > $DIR2/lstFile`;
NB_LINE=`cat $DIR2/lstFile|wc -l`;
deb=`expr $NB_LINE - 30`
FileToDelete=`head -n $deb lstFic> lstFileDel`;
DEL_FILE=`cat lstFileDel`
echo $DEL_FILE
$FIND $DIR -type f -name '$DEL_FILE' -exec rm -f {} \;


but the find rm doesn't work, my variable is good the echo displays the files to delete, but the rm does't work...

so if anyone has an idea?or a better solution (I gues there must be a lot^^)


thanks for the help Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 08-26-2010 at 01:38 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 08-26-2010
try this:
Code:
cd <path to the directory where logs are>
rm -f `ls -lt | awk ' NR>30 { print $NF } '`

# 3  
Old 08-26-2010
works great Smilie
I think I made it complicated for nothing

thanks a lot! Smilie
# 4  
Old 08-26-2010
Code:
ls -lt |grep -v ^d | awk ' NR>30 { print $NF } ' |xargs rm

# 5  
Old 08-27-2010
Code:
# rm `ls -1t | sed '1,29d;s/.* \(.*\)$/\1/'`

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