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# 8  
Old 08-29-2012
Parse the output, maybe with awk and build your exclude list with this.
But as RudiC already mentioned, the information can be very short-lived and also a file can be in use right after you gathered your list.
# 9  
Old 08-29-2012
In bash, you could use (excerpt from man bash):
Code:
... extended pattern matching operators ...
pattern-list is a list of one or more patterns separated by a |.
...
!(pattern-list)
                     Matches anything except one of the given patterns

So - create a "|" separated lsof pattern list in a variable and use the !($var) operator to exclude those files from processing.
# 10  
Old 08-30-2012
well till here its ok,
Code:
#!/bin/sh

lsof -p `ps -elf | grep tomcat | grep -v grep | grep -v monitor | awk {'print $4'}` | grep "/var/log" | awk {'print $9'} > "/tmp/mylogs.txt"

but i need to find everything that is not on that file on a specific folder

find find /var/log/myfolder/ --exclude from /tmp/mylogs.txt -type f -mtime +1 -exec gzip {} \;
Any one could make an example of the script, please?
# 11  
Old 08-30-2012
No need for that long contruct; given you are using bash, try this to ls all files in /var/log NOT open by the command "sleep":
Code:
ls -d /var/log/!($(lsof -Fn -c sleep  2>/dev/null|awk -F"[/]" '/\/var\/log/{printf "%s|",$4}'))

What it does: lsof outputs the open files for command sleep, including path, which is removed by awk, adding the "|" separator. This then goes into the bash extglob operator !(...) to be used by ls.
# 12  
Old 08-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
No need for that long contruct; given you are using bash, try this to ls all files in /var/log NOT open by the command "sleep":
Code:
ls -d /var/log/!($(lsof -Fn -c sleep  2>/dev/null|awk -F"[/]" '/\/var\/log/{printf "%s|",$4}'))

What it does: lsof outputs the open files for command sleep, including path, which is removed by awk, adding the "|" separator. This then goes into the bash extglob operator !(...) to be used by ls.
it is not a bash,
so the error is
Code:
event not found

.
# 13  
Old 08-31-2012
If the error is what you post (I had the same during testing), there is a chance it will understand a slight modification of above. Assign the $(lsof ...) stuff to a variable and try /var/log/!($var). Follow up with option -x set.
# 14  
Old 08-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
If the error is what you post (I had the same during testing), there is a chance it will understand a slight modification of above. Assign the $(lsof ...) stuff to a variable and try /var/log/!($var). Follow up with option -x set.
Thanks for trying to help,i'm working on it,

not solved yet.

will update later...
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