README.md

Archive-old-log-files-Project

Suppose if a application of linux server/local server produces log file of 10GB, 20GB or more. After some time disk will be full or out of space by these log files.
So, we have to compress these file by E.O.D

Steps:

• Provide the path of directory in which you want to perform action.

    BASE=/home/piyush/Downloads/log_files

• Check if directory is present or not.

    if [ ! -d $BASE ]
    then
        echo "directory does not exist: $BASE"
        exit 1
    fi

• Create 'archive' directory at that location($BASE) if not already present

    if [ ! -d $BASE/archive ]
    then
        mkdir $BASE/archive
    fi

• Find all the files with size more than 10GB or any size you want.

    for i in `find $BASE -maxdepth $DEPTH -type f -size +10M`

• If found, then compress each file.

    gzip $i || exit 1

• Move the compressed files in 'archive' directory.

    mv $i.gz $BASE/archive || exit 1

• Make a cron job to execute the scripts every day at given time.(At 20:00 Hrs)

    00 20 * * * /home/piyush/user/91705/Archive-old-log-files-Project/archive_project.sh