Michael O'Keefe wrote:
>> Before I asked I tried the following in my home directory, containing
>> a bunch of normal stuff.
>> $ find . -type f | xargs gzip -q - | wc -c
>>
>> After a time and a lot of crunching it returned 60. Obviously wrong,
>> given:
> 
> Where's your -c/--stdout so it can feed 'wc -c' ?

Yes, you're right.

OK, I've learned my lesson: don't try this with one's home directory!
This was a bad idea. Now *many* files in my home directory have been
gzipped, and the original is gone. Couldn't ssh to the box any more
since everything in ~/.ssh was gzipped. Ugh! Now trying to fix things up...

Karl


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