filerotate

A log rotate tool written in rust.

Usage

Program will rotate log file or iterate through all log files in a directory and rotate them. Rotate tasks is configured in a yaml or json config file. See example.yaml for more details.

Explanation of the config file

Param	Description
path (Required)	Absolute path to rotate, can be a regular file or directory.
keep (Required)	File or directory keep num, including origin file or directory. (delete file if 0, truncate file if 1)
mode (Required)	Rotate mode can be MoveCreate or CopyTruncate.
depth	Recursive depth if path is directory. Depth is infinite if not set.
size	Only rotate file who's size grow bigger then configured size. Byte size suffix is supported e.g. KiB, mb, G. Note size is counted as storage size here, may different from apparent file size listed by ls -l
regex	Only rotate file who's name match regex.
precmd	Execute command before rotate.
postcmd	Execute command after rotate.

Example

- path: /foo/bar/dir
  keep: 3
  depth: 3
  regex: ".+\\.log$"
  mode: MoveCreate

Initial	Round #1	Round #2
bar └── dir ├── a.log ├── b.conf └── dir1 ├── c.conf ├── dir2 │ └── e.log ├── dir3 └── d.log	bar ├── dir │ ├── a.log │ ├── b.conf │ └── dir1 │ ├── c.conf │ ├── dir2 │ │ └── e.log │ ├── dir3 │ └── d.log └── dir.1 ├── a.log └── dir1 ├── dir2 ├── dir3 └── d.log	bar ├── dir │ ├── a.log │ ├── b.conf │ └── dir1 │ ├── c.conf │ ├── dir2 │ │ └── e.log │ ├── dir3 │ └── d.log ├── dir.1 │ ├── a.log │ └── dir1 │ ├── dir2 │ ├── dir3 │ └── d.log └── dir.2 ├── a.log └── dir1 ├── dir2 ├── dir3 └── d.log