| Recipe 2 | Compressing Old Log Files |
Task
You’re “on loan” to the operations team—you’re going to help them by writing some utilities. The operations team lead sends you the following email:
Welcome to the team!
Your first task, should you choose to accept it, is to write a “janitor” utility. This utility should go over a given directory and compress any log file (having .log suffix) that is over a month old. After compressing, you should compare the content of the compressed file with the original file (say, using SHA1) and if it matches, delete the original file.
This message won’t destruct in five seconds.
After some back-and-forth, you agree that “a month” equals thirty days and that you’ll use gzip compression.
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