Question

Exercise#1 Scripting

Create a cron job that execute every day call a script. The script should gzip one sample files that are created today. You should not create the mock file, your script should search operating system and identify those files automatically, by looking at the current date. show the successful script execution with screenshots and explain the shell code.

Answer 1

create a shell script as zipscript.sh

find . -mtime 0 -exec tar cvzf {}.tar.gz {} \;

command for crontab to run the script
00 00 * * * zipscript.sh

execute crontab command

crontab -e