I have daily cron jobs that clobber their old log files everyday. How can I automate keeping the last 3 log files and delete the oldest one everyday?
Is this a job for bash or perl? I've tried to fabricate a unique log file name inside of "crontab -e" with `date` but the backtick trick does not seem to work there. I think I have to have cron call a bash or perl script, the bash or perl script figure out a unique log file name, delete any old log files, and call the actual perl script that finally gets some work done and redirecting its output to a unique file name. Whew! Is there not a simpler way? Thanks, Siegfried -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
