One of the biggest parts of my job is managing website log files. Our business is very marketing-centric, so missing log file data isnt expectable. There have been a few situations were log files have been split or broken. Below are three nice little commands which have helped tremendously.
Removes all log files with no data
find /home/httpd/logs -size 0 -type f -print0 xargs -0 rm f
This is a simple little command which helps keep things neat and organized. Once files rotate Ive found a bunch of empty files on the folder. This really confuses some of the marketing people.
Converts log files extention into logical month.
for i in `dir /home/httpd/logs/*-access_log.1sed s/.1$//`; do mv $i.1 $i.feb; done
A little more complicated. Again, the overall goal here is to make the log files more friendly for marketing people connecting into the FTP server. I am converting the *.1 extension file created by the log rotate into *.month. I use this single line to change the extension on 300+ files. Works fantastic!
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