If your file names take the form of "access.log.Jul.gz" then you can do
this:
file1="access.log.`date +%b`.gz"
Or
file1="access.log.*`date +%b`*.gz"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Mike Branda
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] bash woes - my turn
>
>
>
> Well our web host uses analog to give stats but it doesn't do unique
> visitors. I found a project called "visitors" that does and also
> outputs visio style traffic flowcharts. However, they only give me real
> apache log files for 5 days. After that all you get is what analog
> outputs for up to 2 years I think. So I've started cat-ing the
> access.log.0 (the 1 day old logrotate file) to the end of a cumulative
> file so I can use visitors. I'm also gzipping the last month's file so
> I can conserve as much space as possible. It worked great the last 2
> months but now I have the current month's unzipped file, and 2 gzipped
> files and my weak attempt at a bash script coughed. It worked great
> from a cron job with 1 gz and 1 unzipped. So the issue is that I need
> to somehow say for file in access.*.gz (where * is monthly date). Try
> not to laugh at this too hard as it's only my second attempt at a bash
> script. :^) I built in an else and elif to handle if one of the files
> is missing somehow. So the deal is that $file1 is now multiple files.
> also keep in mind that evolution is wrapping the long lines.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> home="/home/wws1"
> logdir="$home/cumulativelog"
> file1="access.log.*.gz"
> file2="access.log"
> outputfilea="$home/report/index.html"
> outputfileb="$home/cumulativelog/graph.dot"
> outputfilec="$home/cumulativelog/graphfix.dot"
> outputgraph="$home/report/graph.png"
> commanda="$home/bin/visitors -A -m 30 -o html -f $outputfilea -"
> commandb="$home/bin/visitors -T -V -"
> commandc="$home/bin/dot"
>
>
> if [ -e $logdir/$file1 ] && [ -e $logdir/$file2 ]
> then
> echo "starting visitors with both files"
> (gunzip -c $logdir/$file1 && cat $logdir/$file2) | $commanda
> (gunzip -c $logdir/$file1 && cat $logdir/$file2) | $commandb >
> $outputfileb
> cat $outputfileb | sed 's/\[splines=true/\[splines=true
> fontpath="\/home\/wws1\/fonts\/"/' > $outputfilec
> $commandc $outputfilec -Tpng > $outputgraph
> elif [ -e $logdir/$file2 ]
> then
> echo "starting visitors with $file2"
> cat $logdir/$file2 | $commanda
> cat $logdir/$file2 | $commandb > $outputfileb
> cat $outputfileb | sed 's/\[splines=true/\[splines=true
> fontpath="\/home\/wws1\/fonts\/"/' > $outputfilec
> $commandc $outputfilec -Tpng > $outputgraph
> else
> echo "starting visitors with $file1"
> zcat $logdir/$file1 | $commanda
> zcat $logdir/$file1 | $commandb > $outputfileb
> cat $outputfileb | sed 's/\[splines=true/\[splines=true
> fontpath="\/home\/wws1\/fonts\/"/' > $outputfilec
> $commandc $outputfilec -Tpng > $outputgraph
> fi
>
>
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