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Basically my requirement is to find 10 latest logs and compress it into zip. I have tried command ls -Lt | head -10 | zip log.zip *.log, but output is not matched.

First take backup

You should try:

ls -Lt | head -10 | xargs zip log.zip 

Your command

zip log.zip *.log

is trying to compress every file in the current directory which is ending with .log, it is not taking file names from STDIN.

If your directory has mixed files, i.e. files other than log files, then you can try:

ls -Lt *.log | head -10 | xargs zip log.zip

To safely select the 10 most recent (plain) files in the current directory, I would recommend zsh, since it can safely, natively, select files based on modification time:

zsh -c 'zip log.zip *.log(.om[1,10])'

This uses two of zsh's wildcard ("glob") qualifiers and a subscripting operator:

• 
  *.log( ... ) -- this starts the wildcard off with *.log, which will select every¹ file in the current directory that ends with .log, filtered by the following criteria


• 
  . -- this filters the resulting list to include only plain files


• 
  om -- this sorts ("orders") the resulting list by modification time, most recent first


• 
  [1,10] -- this narrows the resulting list by selecting elements 1 through 10 (the ten most recent files)

Once zsh has generated the 10 most recent plain files, it hands those to the zip command.

Footnotes:

1. by default, zsh will not select hidden (dot) files, such as .foo.log; if you have such files and wish to select them, you can include the D glob qualifier (*.log(.Dom[1,10])) or set the GLOB_DOTS option (with setopt globdots).

Tried with below command

ls -ltrh| awk '$1 ~ /-rw/print $0'|sed -n '1,10p'| awk 'print "zip" " " $NF".zip" " " $NF'| sh