Archive log files based on date

Here’s some piece of code to use on a cron job when you have a software component (database or application) that spits out logs and you want to archive or delete those files based on creation date.

#Archive
find log/ -type f -mtime +681 -ls -exec mv {} log/2011/. \;

#Delete
find . -type f -mtime +30 -ls -exec rm {} \;

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