topic Re: script needed to compress log files in Operating System - HP-UX

script needed to compress log files

kingkhan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:56:33 GMT

i am having 200 log files in a directory i want to compress the log files which are having size more than 10 mb, help me to have a script

Re: script needed to compress log files

Pete Randall — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:06:32 GMT

Something like this:

find /log_directory -size +10000000c -exec compress {} \;

Pete

Re: script needed to compress log files

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:10:44 GMT

assuming directory is /mydir

find /mydir -size +10485760c -exec compress {} \;

Of course if there are files in a sub-directory of mydir of >10MB they would get compressed too with this code, so don't use if you have subdirs containing stuff you don't want compressed.

HTH

Duncan

Re: script needed to compress log files

Dennis Handly — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:11 GMT

Why would you care about the size, just use:
$ gzip !(*.gz)

gzips all that aren't gzipped.

Re: script needed to compress log files

kingkhan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:47:05 GMT

thanks it worked out

Re: script needed to compress log files

kingkhan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:48:53 GMT

find /mydir -size +10485760c -exec compress {} \;

this worked out. as i want to rescue files less than 10 mb. it necessary to check the size