file-rotate
Rotate files with configurable suffix.
Look to the docs for explanatory examples of all features, like:
- Using count or timestamp as suffix
- Age-based deletion of log files
- Optional compression
- Getting a list of log files
Following are some supplementary examples to get started.
Basic example
use ;
use ;
$ ls logs
log log.1 log.2
$ cat log.2 log.1 log
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Line 9
Line 10
Example with timestamp suffixes
let mut log = new;
// Write a bunch of lines
writeln!;
for idx in 2..=10
$ ls logs
log log.20210825T151133.1
log.20210825T151133 log.20210825T151134
$ cat logs/*
Line 10
Line 1: Hello World!
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Line 9
The timestamp format (including the extra trailing .N
) works by default so that the lexical ordering of filenames equals the chronological ordering.
So it almost works perfectly with cat logs/*
, except that log
is smaller (lexically "older") than all the rest. This can of course be fixed with a more complex script to assemble the logs.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT license.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in file-rotate by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.