Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:03 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Joe Tseng <joe_tseng@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring Message-ID: <20081010223103.GA44921@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081010214211.J79246@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <BAY117-W12F038ED445086170210BE9B350@phx.gbl> <20081010185438.GA40860@icarus.home.lan> <20081010214211.J79246@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> "gzip *" will do what you want. >> >> When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it, >> but will emit a warning that it's doing so. >> >> Otherwise, you could use something like: >> >> find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip >> > i don't understand the difference. The 2nd will avoid the warnings emit by "gzip *" when encountering already-gzipped files. It all depends on what the user wants. > .tar.gz files are already gzip'd :), so no need for second case. it will > be skipped anyway -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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