Making a shell script...

[Ian Barnes]

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> Subject: Making a shell script...
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>
> Hi guys:
>             I try to make a script to rotate some log files every month,
> file must be appear like this   (Month-Year.tgz)...the question
> is: how can
> I compress all files in a sub-dir that contains many sub-dirs without
> compress sub-dirs too...sample:
>
> /mydir/one-dir
>           /another-one
>           file1
>           file2
>           file3
>
> I try to tar & compress file[1..3] without compress /one-dir, /another-one
> directories...I'm already looked at man pages without a response...thanks
>
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Hi,

Stupid question: Why dont you use newsyslog ? /etc/newsyslog

#man newsyslog

Ian