Karl Cunningham wrote:
> know how much space would be taken up if all the files in several
> directories (and their subdirectories) were gzipped. This must be done
> on the fly as there isn't enough space to store gzipped versions of all
> the files.
>
> There's got to be some `find ... | gzip | wc -c` magic that can be done
> here but I haven't found it as yet.
find /startdirectory -type f -exec gzip {} \;
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