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Create tar for logs (or files in general) with previous month in filename on Ubuntu / Linux / Unix And delete those files afterwards
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unix_tar-logs.sh
DATESTAMP="$(date -d "1 month ago" +"%Y-%m")"
FILESPEC="*${DATESTAMP}*.log"
tar cvzf "${DATESTAMP}.tar.gz" $FILESPEC && rm ${FILESPEC}
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