while true do THIRDFILE=`ls -t | sed -n '3p'` find . -nam

Hi,
i want to zip the files that generates automatically
every few minutes (files generated are in .arc
extension)....any body write a script for this...
thanks in advance

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Answer Posted / vipul dalwala

while true
do
THIRDFILE=`ls -t | sed -n '3p'`
find . -name '*.arc' ! -newer ${THIRDFILE} -exec gzip {}
\;
sleep 300
done

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