[nylug-talk] logrotate question

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 2, 2008 1:47 PM, C Thala <cthala at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to keep the last N files. Let's say 5.
>
> Now in the past, I've written a shell script of the form,
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>     foocount=`ls foo*gz|wc -l`
>     if [ "$foocount" -le 5 ]; then
>         exit 0; # nothing needs to be deleted
>     fi
>     filestodelete=`expr $foocount - 5`
>     rm `ls foo*gz|head -n $filestodelete`
>
> But this is ugly.
>
> I'm looking for an elegant solution.

Delete all files created more than 5 days ago?
$ find /path/to/logs -ctime +5 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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