How can I iterate over .log files, process them through awk, and replace with output files with different extensions?

Question

Let's say that we have multiple .log files on the prod unix machine(Sunos) in a directory: For example:

ls -tlr                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
total 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 file2017-01.log                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 file2016-02.log                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 todo2015-01.log                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 fix20150223.log 

The purpose here is that via nawk I extract specific info from the logs( parse logs ) and "transform" them to .csv files in order to load them to ORACLE tables afterwards. Although the nawk has been tested and works like a charm, how could I automate a bash script that does the following:

1) For a list of given files in this path

2) nawk (to do my extraction of specific data/info from the log file)

3) Output separately each file to a unique .csv to another directory

4) remove the .log files from this path

What does concern me is that the loadstamp/timestamp on each file ending that is different. I have implemented a script that works only for the latest date. (eg. last month). But I want to load all the historical data and I am bit stuck.

To visualize, my desired/target output is this:

bash-4.4$ ls -tlr                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
total 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 file2017-01.csv                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 file2016-02.csv                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 todo2015-01.csv                                                                                                                                                                               
-rw-r--r-- 1 21922 21922 0 Sep 10 13:15 fix20150223.csv 

How could this bash script please be achieved? The loading will only takes one time, it's historical as mentioned. Any help could be extremely useful.

Answer 1

An implementation written for readability rather than terseness might look like:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for infile in *.log; do
  outfile=${infile%.log}.csv
  if awk -f yourscript <"$infile" >"$outfile"; then
    rm -f -- "$infile"
  else
    echo "Processing of $infile failed" >&2
    rm -f -- "$outfile"
  fi
done

---

To understand how this works, see:

• Globbing -- the mechanism by which *.log is replaced with a list of files with that extension.
• The Classic for Loop -- The for infile in syntax, used to iterate over the results of the glob above.
• Parameter expansion -- The ${infile%.log} syntax, used to expand the contents of the infile variable with any .log suffix pruned.
• Redirection -- the syntax used in <"$infile" and >"$outfile", opening stdin and stdout attached to the named files; or >&2, redirecting logs to stderr. (Thus, when we run awk, its stdin is connected to a .log file, and its stdout is connected to a .csv file).