Shell Programming and Scripting

mv /var/log/*20070821* /mnt/archive
gzip -9 /mnt/archive/*

mkdir "/dev/my backup directory"
mv /var/log/*2007* "/dev/my backup directory/"
sed -i '/:[0-9][0-5]:/ {d}' "/dev/my backup directory/*"

#!/bin/bash

if [ x$1 == x ]; then
    echo "Syntax: $0 <date>"
    exit 1
fi

cat $(grep -l $1 /var/log/*) | tar -cz | gzip -9 - > /dev/shm/archive-$1.tgz
rm -f $(grep -l $1 /var/log/*)