[X-Unix] Question about grep

[Stroller]

On Mar 17, 2004, at 3:08 pm, Our Pal Al wrote:

> On 3/17/04 8:32 AM, "Brent Baisley" <brent at landover.com> wrote:
>
>> My first question is why would you want to keep years worth of backup
>> logs?
>
>
> Exactly. I *don't*, but Retrospect doesn¹t have any customization 
> options
> for exporting the backup report (separate from the log, btw). It 
> exports
> everything and that's it, hence processing needs to be afterwards. 
> Lopping
> off the last X number of lines in the file will truncate to either 
> something
> with too much info or perhaps not enough, depending on how much you 
> grab or
> cut. It's days that useful, specifically the last 7 for me, whether the
> number of failures and clients makes the file 2 lines or 2000.

And having wasted all that time on an answer involving long date 
formats, I think the answer is really a weekly `cron` job to
     mv Restrospect\ backup\ report Restrospect\ backup\ report-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d_%X
and run your grep on the new one that's subsequently created by the new 
backup.

Stroller.