On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 07:38, Jake McHenry wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made up a script that backs up my mysql database into a compressed
> file. What I want to do now it make it only keep the last 4 days,
> anything older than that it will delete, basically the same thing
> logrotate does.
>
> Is there a way for me to do this in a bash script?
>
> The files are named: sql_10142003.sql.gz
Just curious....
Why couldn't you just have your script call "logrotate" with your
specific configuration file to do the compression and control the number
of files kept?
Seems like it would be a bit less work...
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