Logrotate to clean up date stamped files

Question

I\'m currently trying to work out a method of tidying up Oracle Recover log files that are created by Cron...

Currently, our Oracle standby recover process is invoked b

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I had a similar issue. By all accounts logrotate is useless for use on filenames with built in datestamps.

If all else was equal I would probably go with find in a cron job.

For my own reasons I wanted to use logrotate and eventually found a way: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23108631

In essence it was a way of encapsulating the cron job in a logrotate file. Maybe not the prettiest or most efficient but like I said, I had my reasons.