Copy distributed log files into a folder

shell-copy-logfiles

baseFolder="/tmp/app"
logFilesToCopy=("$baseFolder/auth/log/auth.log" "$baseFolder/jobs/log/jobs.log" "$baseFolder/app.log")
destination="/tmp/logs"

for logFile in ${logFilesToCopy[@]}
do

    # logFile -> variable; ## -> greedy front trim; */ -> match everything until the last '/'
    filename=${logFile##*/}

    currentFile="$destination/$filename"

    if [ -f "$currentFile" ]
    then
        rm "$currentFile"
    fi

    cp -f "$logFile" "$destination"
    chmod 644 "$currentFile"

done

echo "done"