Shell Scripting

[Laslo7]

I have a file that is created daily via logrotate, access.log, logrotate names the file access.log.1,access.log.2,access.log.3 and so on. I would like to write a shell script to run as a cron job to rename the access.log to (todaysdate)access.log, ie, 11022001access.log. How would one go about doing this. Commands I figure I will need, date and mv are there any others?
Any pointers or hints to get me started, as this will be the second shell script I have ever written.


AJ

[paulb]

Try this link.

Here (http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html)

[danrees]

I may be mistaken (probably), but I think logrotate can do this for you. Have you checked the man page?

[dante_d]

datestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d)
mv access.log ${datestamp}access.log

or even more simply:

mv access.log `date +%Y%m%d`access.log