Problems with a script that cycles log files

[wvsa]

Greetings having a problem with a script that is used to cycle log files. We have a directory /wv/dvlp/rms/log. Under the log directories we have several directories for example /wv/dvlp/rms/log/dira, dirb, etc. Under /wv/dvlp/rms/log/dira there maybe a directory and underneath that directory there maybe another directory. With the script I have I can cycle the log files in the /wv/dvlp/rms/log/dira directory but cannot cycle the log files that are in directories below /wv/dvlp/rms/log/dira. Here is the script:
cd $1
for i in `ls -l |grep "^d"| tr -s " " " "|cut -d" " -f9`
do
cd $i
for x in `ls -l -R |grep "^d"| tr -s " " " "|cut -d" " -f9`
do
echo $x
cd $x
for l in `ls`
do
cycle $l 2
done
cd ..
cd $x
echo "In sub dir"
done
cd ..
done

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please don't limit your responses to fixing my script I'm sure someone out there has a better way of accomplishing this task. Again thankyou for your response.

--Norm Long--
--World Vision--

[Joseph C. Denman]

I would use the find command.

cd $1
find ./ -type d | while read line
do
cd $line
whatever you want
done

...jcd...

[Joseph C. Denman]

Whooops, that wont work.

Howabout something like this:

home=/where/you/want/to/start
find $home -type d | while read line
do
cd $line
#cycle your stuff
done

[someone_4 · Accepted solution]

I have attached a script that clears out log and compresses log files. I have modified it to clear out some other logs as well as system logs. Maybe you can take the basic concept of it and rewrite it a little to help you do what you need.
Hope it helps Richard

Richard

[Stefan Schulz]

If you just want to "cycle" every file you find in your logs directory, why do you have to cd in every single directory.

What you do is to go down every directory under your starting point. Then you cycle every file you find.

I would think it is easier to just stay where you are and cycle every file from there. Like

cd $1
find . -type f | while read line
do
cycle $line 2 # or what ever you want
done

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan


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