Delete and compress logfiles

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Hello, together
Since last month I work with Ruby.
I realised that I leave in the work often log files which are older than
1 month.
Now I want to delete them, however, a ruby script would be more sensible
there.

I know, I can do that in shell, but I want it in ruby.

Can someone send me a example script who does that?
Greetings
rubyamateur

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In Ruby you can delete files with FileUtils.rm

For finding older files you’ll want to use File.mtime (modified time)

To compare dates it will best to use DateTime.

To get you started you can do something like this:

require 'fileutils'
require 'date'

current_day = Time.now.to_datetime.jd

# This will get log files for all subdirectories
Dir["./**/*.log"].each do |file|
  file_day = File.mtime(file).to_datetime.jd

  if current_day - file_day >= 20
    FileUtils.rm file
  end
end

I haven’t tested this but it should work.

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