From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T04:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Logfile Archival Script

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 13:15, Moran, Craig M (BAH) wrote:
> I have been doing a lot of automation scripts with Ruby.  Since I'm new to
> the list, I'm not entirely sure this is the forum for this contribution, but
> I wanted to share a handy code snippet.  This comes in very handy on Windows
> boxes for archiving log files.  This will require that WinZip as well as its
> command line utilities are installed.  Apologies in advance if this isn't
> the place to share code.  Just let me know.  If this code can be done more
> elegantly or concisely, please share.
> Craig
> 
> #/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'ftools'
> 
> Dir.chdir("C:/Logfiles")
> files = Dir["*.log"]
> files.each {|file| system("\"/Program Files/WinZip/WZZIP.EXE\" -m
> \"C:\\Logfiles\\Archived.zip\" " +"\"" + file + "\"")}

Hi Craig -

That's cool; you could also put it here:

http://rubyforge.org/snippet/browse.php?by=cat&cat=1

Yours,

tom