Shell script to delete file if a pattern is found and restart servers

sun81 · 07-22-2010, 12:55 PM

Hi,

I have requirement to delete some log files from a directory if a string
"deletethisfile" is found.
Then restart the application servers.

1. Search for the string “deletethisfile” in server.log file under a directory, If found
2. Stop that particular server.
3. Delete the log file
4. Restart the server.

Thanks for your help in advance..

zirias · 07-22-2010, 01:07 PM

Code:

Pseudo-shell-code:

if grep -q "deletethisfile" $LOGFILE; then
    /etc/init.d/$SERVICE stop
    rm -f $LOGFILE
    /etc/init.d/$SERVICE start
fi

Quite straight-forward...

sun81 · 07-22-2010, 02:24 PM

Thanks for the quick reply..