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Docker: How to clear the logs properly for a Docker container?
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The production environment is getting out of space and I just found out using this command that the logs are taking a ton of space:
> foo#bar:/var/lib/docker$ sudo sh -c "du -ch /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log" | grep total
80G total
My question now is how do I clear all of this logs? I'm not able to acess the /var/lib/docker/containers via cd.
Also, is there any way to check how old these logs are? I would like to keep the logs from the last 30 days.
You can delete old files with this oneliner:
find /var/lib/docker/containers/ -type f -mtime +30 \
-name '*-json.log' -prune -exec rm -vf '{}' \;
The code searchs recursively in the directory /var/lib/docker/containers/ for files whose name matches '*-json.log' and their modification is greater than 30 days and then removes them.
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Linux find and delete files but redirect file names to be deleted
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So im using the script
find /path/to/files/* -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
How can i collect the deleted files and transfer them into a logfile in Bash script
You could do something like:
find /path/... -print ... | tee -a <log.file>
The -print will print out all the hits, and the tee will append that to some log.file.
Side note: the * at the end of your /path/to/files/* seems superfluous.
Side note2: if you just want to delete the files, find has a built-in -delete.
I'm setting up a webserver with Plesk on Ubuntu 18.04 and I would like to use a part of the space I've available to store security footage. I succeeded in automatically uploading the photos and videos to the correct folder, but the problem is that they are not automatically removed, so that the server is full of security images. I upload the footages to a folder on the server that is also available from the internet (secured). I did some research on the internet to a cron job that automatically deleted the files older than 7 days where I found this:
find /var/www/vhosts/path to files/* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
I also found that you can name a file to, for example: delete-files and which can be executed with crontab -e. (Yes, I made it executable;-)
I added this cron to run every hour and stated that I received notifications from the cron. Now, however, I get the following output: find: missing argument to `-exec '
Is there anything else that I need to share? Like logs?
change find /var/www/vhosts/path to files/* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
to
find /var/www/vhosts/path to files/ -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
the * is unnecessary in the path
Can you try this as well?
find /var/www/vhosts/path to files/ -mtime +7 | xargs rm -f
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find files older than X days in bash and delete
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Closed 7 years ago.
I have a server which creates several log files in the log directory. Due to this logging mechanism it eats up a lot of disk space on my server. I want to write a script that deletes all the files that are older than one day and keep the latest ones.
I am able to list the directories in sorted form using ls -trl command. But I am not able to understand how to remove these files. Please help.
You can use the following command:
/usr/bin/find <Your Log Directory> -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f
mtime - provides the file modification time.
+1 - indicates greater than one day.
Try using rm and find command like:
find . -mmin +$((60*24)) -exec rm {} \;
You don't want ls, you want find.
It has a neat argument, -mtime, that limits the results to a specific time delta, and -exec which allows you to provide a command to run on the results.
So for example,
find -mtime +10 -name "*tmp*" -exec rm {} \;
Does an rm on all files older than 10 days, with tmp in the name.
Oh, and be careful.
Very careful.
find . -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
so I have looked at every single script on here regarding deleting directories older than 14 days. The Script I wrote works with files but for some reason it is not deleting the directories. So here is my scripts.
#!/bin/bash
find /TBD/* -mtim +1 | xargs rm -rf
So this code successfully deleted the FILES inside TBD but it left two directories. I checked the timestamp on them and they are atleast 2 days since last modification according to the timestamp. Specifically Dec 16 16:10 So I can't figure this out. My crontab I have running this runs every minute and logs and in the log it only shows.
+ /scripts/deletebackups.sh: :2:BASH_XTRACEFD=3xargs rm -rf
+ /scripts/deletebackups.sh: :2: BASH_XTRACEFD=3find /TBD/contents TBD/contents -mtime +1
I used contents since the contents are actually peoples name in our pxe server. I checked every file and folder INSIDE these two directories and their timestamps are the same as the parent directory as they should be but it's still not deleting.
Could it be a permissions thing? I wrote the script using sudo nano deletebackups.sh
When I type ls under TBD in the far left it shows
drwxr-xr-x 3 hscadministrator root 4096 DEC 16 16:10 for each of the two directories that won't delete.
I'm not overly familiar with what all those letters mean.
Other iterations of this code I have already attempted are
find /TBD/* -mtime +1 rm -r {} \;
To delete directories in /TBD older than 1 day:
find /TBD -mtime +1 -type d | xargs rm -f -r
Add -exec and -f to your find:
find /TBD/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
Note, if you're looking to delete files older than 14 days, you need to change mtime:
-mtime +14
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How to delete files older than X hours
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Closed 9 years ago.
I need to ensure that I have no old files left in my directory so what I think I do is
find . -type f -mtime +1 -delete
i got that from the find man page but then
find . -type f -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm
but again, now told that find: -exec requires an argument - didn't iI pass this. So I started Googling and I found that my command needs to look likee this:
find . -type f -mtime +1 -exec /bin/rm -f {} +
and now I'm just wondering what the two {} s and the + sign are for. Can anyone help me here?
Thanks!
The {} stands for the name of the file(s) found.
The + sign (instead of a ;) means that this command accepts multiple file names in the same command, so that find can run much faster because it is run less times. The number of files added to each execution of the command is limited by the maximum length of the command line find is willing to use.