I have a shell script that will gzip/tar/archive application logs that are over 20 days old which works just fine, but I would like to convert to a Perl script. Problem is, I'm a beginner with Perl and all attempts so far have failed.
Basicaly I have a log dir /app/logs that contains several different logs files that are created daily. One log for each day.
this.log.2008.02.01
this.log.2008.02.02
this.log.2008.02.03
that.log.2008.02.01
that.log.2008.02.02
that.log.2008.02.03
and so on......
the script finds any log over 20 days old, gzips it, the moves it to /app/logs/archive, after 60 days these files are tar'd up and moved to /log_archive/app_logs
Posting a working script and basically saying "re-write this for me in Perl" won't work. Maybe that's not how you meant it, but you really didn't give us much to work with.
There are probably no replies because nobody wants to do all your work for you. You say all your attempts have failed. Fair enough, but post your best attempt, or pieces which are failing. I'm sure plenty of people will be willing to help you fix your code.
My apologies, I definitley did not mean for someone to re-write it for me, I wouldn't learn anything that way. Here is the test code that is not working for me, it doesn't do anything. No output, no log changes, just sits there until I Ctrl-c out of it.
Perl doesn't expand the wildcards and metacharacters for you here like the shell would.
It would seem like a good idea to add print statements inside the loop to see where it gets stuck.
I often omit the indentation on debug statements to make it easy to remove them later. A more sustainable solution is to make the prints conditional on a $debug variable, and leave them in.
It seems like part of the problem is that the script isn't looking at the files at all. It's looping through strings which you intend to represent filename patterns, but it's never looking at the directory.
Hopefully this will get you started:
Also, I don't see where the "archive()" function you're calling has been declared. Maybe it's built into your environment. If not, maybe that's what's hanging up.
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