On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 04:27:47AM -0500, Paul Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Although if you know bash scripting it is quite trivial to do:
|
| for i in *.1; do
| mv -f `echo $i | sed 's/1/3/'` `echo $i | sed 's/1/4/'` # mv *.3->*.4
| mv -f `echo $i | sed 's/1/2/'` `echo $i | sed 's/1/3/'` # mv *.2->*.3
| mv -f $i `echo $i | sed 's/1/2/'` # mv *.1->*.2
| mv -f `echo $i | sed 's/.1//'` $i # mv *->*.1
| done
You made that much more work than it needed to be.
Also, your code will break if there are any digits in filenames that
need rotating.
Try this -
for i in *.1; do
NAME=`echo $i | sed 's/\.1$//`
mv -f ${NAME}.3 ${NAME}.4
mv -f ${NAME}.2 ${NAME}.3
mv -f ${NAME}.1 ${NAME}.2
mv -f ${NAME} ${NAME}.1
killall -HUP syslogd
done
Of course, you still need to have the .1 files existing first, because
that's how it decides what needs wrapping and what doesn't.
If you want to give it a list of files to wrap, you can do this -
for NAME in messages maillog secure whatever whatever whatever; do
mv -f ${NAME}.3 ${NAME}.4
mv -f ${NAME}.2 ${NAME}.3
mv -f ${NAME}.1 ${NAME}.2
mv -f ${NAME} ${NAME}.1
killall -HUP syslogd
done
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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