Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternativenoolddir\n.*rotate 30$

noolddirthe literal text noolddir (case sensitive)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

rotate 30the literal text rotate 30 (case sensitive)

$end of line

2nd Alternative\.*rotate 30$

\.*the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆) , repeated any number of times

rotate 30the literal text rotate 30 (case sensitive)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

noolddir\n.*rotate 30$|\.*rotate 30$

New

/opt/appvendor/log//myapplication_*.log {
    daily
    rotate 30
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
    su root appvendor
    dateext
    postrotate
        /bin/systemctl reload httpd.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
    }

/opt/otherapplication/instances/*/*/otherapplication/logs/*.log
/opt/otherapplication/instances/*/somefolder/*/*/logs/*.log {
    daily
    noolddir
    rotate 30
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
    copytruncate
    su root appvendor
}