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Deleting all logs on all servers quickly

Hello I need to delete all log files in my /home/users folder

I need to go down into ever directory and delete all .log files.

Also if I could use rsync to do it so that I can do this on all my servers that would be great (the server directories are different for some users, and completely different on each server box)

How would I do this?

Thanks, Brad

Nick Upson

find /home/users -name *.log -exec rm -f {}\;

I don't think you can this with rsync because of all the differences between servers

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mindlessacts

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What if I wanted to first make a backup of all those log files. And compress it?

I tried: find /home/users -name *.log -exec tar -cz -f logs.tgz{}\;

find: missing argument to `-exec'

However it did not work

Thanks, Brad

Nick Upson

the find command works on each file seperately, you would now need something more like this

for file in `find /home/users -name *.log `
do
tar -A backup.tar $file
rm -f $file
done

compress backup.tar

Tintin

or as a two step process

find /home/users -type f -name "*.log" | tar czvf /tmp/logs.tgz
find /home/users -type f -name "*.log" | xargs rm -f

mindlessacts

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I tried:

find /home/user -type f -name "*.log" | tar czvf /home/logs.tgz

and it returned;

tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.

However there are several .log files in the directory

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mindlessacts

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Excellent

Thank you very much for all the help.