XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
A system administrator needs to locate all regular files in /var/log that have been modified within the last 7 days and have a size greater than 10 MB. The administrator then needs to compress these files using gzip. Which THREE commands or options should be used together to accomplish this? (Choose THREE.)
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find
find locates files based on criteria like -type f for regular files, -mtime for modification time, -size for size. The -exec option runs a command on each file found. gzip compresses files.
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find
Why this is correct
find is the primary command used to locate files based on the specified criteria.
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locate
Why it's wrong here
locate searches a database of file names and does not have options for modification time or size filtering.
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gzip
Why this is correct
gzip compresses files; it is used within the find -exec command.
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find /var/log -type f -mtime -7 -size +10M -exec gzip {} \;
Why this is correct
This is the correct command structure to find files matching the criteria and compress them.
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xargs
Why it's wrong here
While xargs can be used with find, it is not strictly necessary; -exec directly handles the command.
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