There are times when one will have non-rotating log files in one’s code. The scripts keep generating more logs based on the date and the directories keep filling up. What is one supposed to do?<\/p>\n
This is a quick Bash directory cleaner I use: TIME=30 REMOVEFILE=${LOGDIR}\/findResults.$$.txt<\/p>\n while getopts d:t: flag if [ $# -ne 0 ] if [ ! -d \"$DIRECTORY\" ] find ${DIRECTORY} -mtime +${TIME} > ${REMOVEFILE}<\/p>\n echo \"Removing: \" for each in `cat ${REMOVEFILE}` rm ${REMOVEFILE} This script allows one to chose a directory and how many days of logs to keep. <\/p>\n Here is an example usage:<\/p>\n There are times when one will have non-rotating log files in one’s code. The scripts keep generating more logs based on the date and the directories keep filling up. What is one supposed to do? This is a quick Bash directory cleaner I use: function usage() { echo “Usage: $0 [d directory] [t time_in_days]” exit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organization","category-technical","tag-bash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmilcic.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
\nfunction usage() {
\necho \"Usage: $0 [d directory] [t time_in_days]\"
\nexit 1
\n}<\/p>\n
\nHOMEDIR=\/home\/zenoss
\nSCRIPTSDIR=${HOMEDIR}\/scripts
\nLOGDIR=${SCRIPTSDIR}\/log<\/p>\n
\ndo
\n case \"${flag}\" in
\n d) DIRECTORY=${OPTARG};;
\n t) TIME=${OPTARG};;
\n [?]) usage;;
\n esac
\ndone
\nshift $((OPTIND - 1))<\/p>\n
\nthen
\n usage
\nfi<\/p>\n
\nthen
\n echo \"Directory specified was not a directory\"
\n exit 2
\nfi<\/p>\n
\ncat ${REMOVEFILE}<\/p>\n
\ndo
\n rm $each -f
\ndone<\/p>\n
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n0 12 * * 1 \/home\/user\/scripts\/bin\/dirCleaner.sh -d\/home\/user\/scripts\/log -t31 >> \/home\/user\/scripts\/log\/dirCleaner.`date +\\%Y\\%m\\%d`.log 2>&1
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"