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Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

Gulam Mohiuddin — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:12:06 GMT

Following script is being executed by Cron every night which removes some old logs files and directories.

I would like to log or record all files/directories removed by this shell script.

#!/usr/bin/sh

function purge_logs
{
find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec rm -rf {} \;
}

purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88a/LOGS 30
purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88b/LOGS 60
purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88c/LOGS 90
exit 0

Thanks,

Gulam.

Re: Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

Jeff_Traigle — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:20:36 GMT

Something like this work for you. You can have multiple -exec clauses on find.

find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec ls -l {} \; -exec rm -rf {} \; >> logfile

Re: Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:22:51 GMT

YOu can also add a '-print' to your find command to have it print the file names.

find $1 -mtime +$2 -print -exec rm -rf {} \;

Re: Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

Geoff Wild — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:33:31 GMT

Use tee:
LOG=/tmp/yourlogfile

find $1 -mtime +$2 -print -exec rm -rf {} \; |tee $LOG

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:35:19 GMT

Hi Gulam:

Another way is this:

# find -xdev -type f -mtime +$2 | xargs -t rm -rf

The 'xargs -t' enables tracing of the command that is executed. Even more importantly, it bundles multiple file arguments to 'rm'. This eliminates a 1:1 number of execs of a separate 'rm' for every argument found by 'find'. Process creation is very, very expensive. Using 'xargs' in lieu of '-exec' with 'find' will greatly improve performance.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Script help – record all files deleted by the script.

Arturo Galbiati — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:06:15 GMT

Hi Gulam,
you can use this way:

#!/usr/bin/sh

function purge_logs
{
find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec rm -rf {} \;
}

{
purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88a/LOGS 30
purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88b/LOGS 60
purge_logs /psoft/hrcat88c/LOGS 90
} >logfile 2>&1
exit 0

Thsi will write inti logfile all the output, including errors, comining from the 2 purge_logs.

HTH,
Art