Storing Text File Log

[Sambo8]

Hi there,

I am not a unix scripter, however I have been given the task of amending the following so that it stores a daily log result:

mailx -s "`hostname`:$ORACLE_SID Commit Count for `date`" g.blah@blah.com,j.blah@blah.com </tmp/commitCount.log

currently this emails to two addresses and stores the a commitCount.log for today only this is overwritten the next time it runs.

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks,

Sam

 

[PHV]

A starting point:
cp /tmp/commitCount.log /path/to/dir/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.log

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[Sambo8]

Thanks for this;-)

I have now found out that this has to be done twice a day is there anyway of making the file store either datetime or date/number?

Many thanks,

Sam

 

[PHV]

man date

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[Sambo8]

the returned file is alway one line. So would it be possible for it to append into the same file everytime it runs?

 

[feherke]

Hi

would it be possible for it to append into the same file everytime it runs?

So you want the /tmp/commitCount.log file itself to not be overwrited ? That you have to discuss with the application which creates it. Or give us more details about it.

In meantime you can do this :

cat /tmp/commitCount.log >> bigbig.log

Feherke.

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[mrn]

If you want a unique name also take a look at

> filename.$RANDOM.`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`

Mike

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