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My sip server generates 3 log files for each hour:

Progress-23May2017-10-00hrs.log Call-23May2017-10-00hrs.log Error-23May2017-10-00hrs.log

So I need to delete all other log files except the current hour log. I tried with this command

 find . -type f -name "*-23May2017-10-00hrs.log" -print

it printed my current time's three log files.

so when I tried this command to verify files not matching the current time log.

find . -type f -name "!(*-23May2017-10-30hrs.log)" -print

it gives me nothing.

How to get my other log files deleted?

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  • What SIP server is it? Doesn't it implement some sort of log rotation to do this for you? Commented May 23, 2017 at 6:19
  • Use logrotate for that job. Commented May 23, 2017 at 6:44
  • @Thomas it generates log for each hour but i use this sip server for my development purposes thats the reason Commented May 23, 2017 at 6:55

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find /home/fi -maxdepth 1 -iname log\* -type f -mmin +1800 | sort | head -n -1 | xargs rm
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  • Some explanation would be nice. Commented May 23, 2017 at 11:42
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First of all: your find processes are not escaped, so that the wildcards * are transformed. To prevent that you can either use backslashes \ or use single-quotes '

So: find . -type f -name '*-23May2017-10-00hrs.log' -print should work fine.

Back to your real questions: There are several ways to solve that. First you can use find's -mtime feature to just listen every file which last modification is x minutes ago. Let's assume your sip server logs at /var/log/sip/

find /var/log/sip/ -type f -name '*.log' -mmin +$((24*60)) -print will show you every file ending with .log and which last modification was 24*60 minutes (1 day) ago.

However you can also use a tool which is made for logging handling and thats logrotate.

logrotate is available on every major unix distribution and allows you to compress files at a certain age, remove them at another ago and so on. The feature list is quite long. It's easy to install, runs as a daemon and you don't have to fiddle around with extra cronjobs.

My suggestions is to use logrotate. Check out it's simplicity at: https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate

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