Some ESB servers at work produce log files for each day, and they can grow quite large. In addition the log directory becomes annoyingly full which makes it a bit “blah” to grep for recent stuff. So I figured I could save some space by compressing them.
Decided to experiment a bit and created a simple little script to archive the log files for certain months and figured I might as well share it. Especially since it might be handy to learn from later when I’ve forgotten how I did it 😛
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Needed a function that could get me the last N lines of a log file. Wanted it to be efficient and not dependent on anything other than my code.
Found some versions, but they were either a bit messy or depended on unstable arithmetic (where filesize is greater than PHP_INT_MAX). So, I decided to take on the challenge and try to write one myself. Nice little exercise 🙂
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