[Gllug] Re: [GLUG] Year, month,day?

[Gareth Gregor]

not sure if this is what you mean...

tar zcvf some.tgz logfile.log.`date +%Y%m%d`

Regards
Gareth

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Neil Fryer wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have some apps that create log files in the form of logfile.log.20021112,
> now I want to gzip these on a nightly basis, the part that I'm battling with
> is how would I say 
> 
> gzip logfile.log.yyyymmdd, as there will be existing logs in the dir called
> logfile.log, which will be live, and I don't wan't to zip that?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil Fryer
> Systems Administrator
> 12Snap UK Ltd
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> 
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