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Recursive find and grep to Search Oracle Trace Files for Any String
May 15, 2026 / · 7 min read · Oracle Database Unix Commands Oracle DBA Trace Files grep find Diagnostics Troubleshooting ·Recursive find and grep to Search Oracle Trace Files for Any String Purpose Oracle's Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) accumulates hundreds or thousands of trace files — one per background process event, one per incident, one per session that hits an error deep enough to dump. Finding the trace file that contains …
Read MoreFind Oracle Archive Logs Older Than N Days with find -mtime
May 3, 2026 / · 5 min read · Oracle Database Archive Logs Unix Commands Database Maintenance Oracle DBA Storage Management Archived Redo Logs find ·Find Oracle Archive Logs Older Than N Days with find -mtime Purpose Oracle databases in archivelog mode write a stream of .ARC (archived redo log) files to a destination directory. The directory fills up. When it fills up, the database hangs. The four find -mtime commands below let a DBA list, delete, compress, or move …
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