UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi Folks

I have a logs file at directory cd /opt/app/logs named as

Code:

     coa.log.1
     uoa.log.2
     erete-rere.log.1

now my concern is that i am looking for unix command which will zip the files having extension log.1 or log.2 or having log. extension anything
request you to please advise the unix comand to zip these files

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You seem to indicate that these filenames are contained in another file? If that is the case, what is the pathname of that file?

Do these filenames really have that many leading spaces as part of their filenames?

Are you trying to zip all of these log files into a single archive, or are you trying to zip each log file into a separate archive?

What utility do you want to use to zip these log files? (Different UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems use different utilities such as zip, gzip, pack, compress, or something else depending on what operating system you're using, what version of that operating system you're using, and what you intend to do with the archives you create.)

Hi Don Cragun,

This is not an homework question please rite now because of log issues the disk space is increasing so rite now i want to put these logs in zip format immediately

so rite now at the location there are many files having .log extension and few files having extension *.log.* , so i want to zip these files specially at current location.

yes i want to zip all these log files into a single archive named with backlogs+timesstamp.zip , in which timestamp will be the current timestamp

Well i am looking for .gzip utility

Your request is FAR from clear. With a daring inference from my side, try

Code:

gzip -c *.log* >"backlog$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M').zip"

If you are out of space, where will you write the compressed file to? Both the originals and the target will have to exist whilst this is in progress.

Can you force some off to either another server or to removable media, e.g. tape? If you can clear some space then the process to work on them will be much simpler, although you might need to have several zip files as you process each block.

Where are you up to? Can you show us the output from:-

Code:

uname -a
df -k
du -kxs /path/to/files

Kind regards,
Robin