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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie: Rotating logfile monthly Date: 3 Jan 1997 21:40:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5ajucq$fnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ah9su$bsk@eve.enteract.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33582 Dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> wrote: > Wanna rotate my Apache access_log, and other similiar such beasties, > every month. Basically, rename the thing with the likes of > access_log-[jan-dec]-1997, etc and maybe run compress on it. Don't forget to send Apache a SIGHUP afterwards, or it will continue filling the old log file. > Now, what buggers me, are what are some cool ways to get a > name of the current month, or the previous month, sitting in a > script. $ date +"digits: %m, abbrev: %b, full name: %B" digits: 01, abbrev: Jan, full name: January As for the previous month, it's a little more difficult. There's no standardized option to date(1) to have it spit out the date string for an arbitrary point in time. (GNU date is said to allow for it.) $ mon=$(($(date +%m) - 1)) $ if [ $mon -eq 0 ] ; then > mon=12 > fi $ mon=$(printf "%02d" $mon) $ echo $mon 12 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)