script to delete old files in file

chaitanya_db2adm · #1 (**permalink**) 01-29-13, 04:43

Hi i am new to scripiting, please help me
My requirment is

Every day some logs files will be archived to some location, i need to keep only 10 day files in that archive path .
For Example- on 29-1-2013 only log files from 19-1-2013 to 29-1-2013 should be there , It should run every-day suppose on 30th there should be logs from 20th only.

please help me with script and any links to down load the documents

kitaman · #2 (**permalink**) 01-29-13, 08:53

Code:

cd directory_containing_log_files
find ./ -mtime +10 -exec delete.logfile.script {} \;

Code:

#delete.logfile.script
echo Delete $1
rm $1

You can embellish as necessary.

chaitanya_db2adm · #3 (**permalink**) 02-01-13, 00:22

Thanks for your reply.

I want some corn job to do this

kitaman · #4 (**permalink**) 02-01-13, 07:12

Quote:

some corn job

There are no corn jobs, there are however Korn shell scripts, and there are also cron jobs, which are scheduled tasks.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh       #specify the Korn shell
cd log_directory
find ./ -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;

Add the following line to the cron file for whichever user is going to run the job.

Code:

0 23 * * * /home/user/delete_log_script >/home/user/delete_log_script.log 2>&1

This line will run your script at 11pm every day and create a log of the script's activity.
You really need to read the following:
man cron
man crontabs