Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody,

I want your help on what, I suppose, might seem a simple task to many of you.

the deal is to write a script that will look in a specific folder to see if there is any file whose size is bigger than say 1M and if so to execute a command.

like

if [find . -type f -size +100000]
then
log_rotate
fi

the idea is to rotate a log file after it reaches a certain size.

I guess there are better ways to do this.

please advise

Lorenc

Please modify print$5 for correct column for size.

Code:

for $ln `ls -l dirpath`
do
 size=`echo $ln | awk '{print $5}
if [ $size -gt 1000000 ]
#### here goes your command
fi

done

Have a look at the logrotate command: man logrotate

This thread might be of help:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...grotation.html