[LUNI] scripting challenge - moving logs

[Martin Maney]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:19:38PM -0600, Lance Spitzner wrote:
> I want to create a cron job that takes the logs from the
> previous day and moves them to a different system.  So if
> today is the 13th, it grabs the files from Nov_12 and moves
> them.  How does one do this, determining the 'day before'
> challenge?
> 
> Words of wisdom appreciated :)

<wisdom terseness="unixlike">
date(1)
</wisdom>

Pay attention to the -d option, eg.:

$ date
Mon Nov 12 21:45:26 CST 2001
$ date -d "-1 day"
Sun Nov 11 21:45:32 CST 2001

The rest is a little jiggery with the date format option and some trivial
shell scriptery.  :-)

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