Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-02 10:20, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking for a little help. I've got a directory with a large number of gzipped files in it (over 110k) along with a few thousand uncompressed files. I'd like to find the

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
Message: 17 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:50:01 -0800 From: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 28 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:20:08 -0800 From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking for a little help. I've got a

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On 1/2/07, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip my problem description Hi, Kurt. Can I make some assumptions that simplify things? No kinky filenames, just [a-zA-Z0-9.]. My approach specifically doesn't like colons or spaces, I bet. Also, you say gzipped, so I'm assuming it's ONLY gzip,

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On 1/3/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 17 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:50:01 -0800 From: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 28 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:20:08 -0800 From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On 1/2/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-02 10:20, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can probably use awk(1) or perl(1) to post-process the output of gzip(1). The gzip(1) utility, when run with the -cd options will uncompress the compressed files and send the

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-03 10:42, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/07, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip my problem description Hi, Kurt. Can I make some assumptions that simplify things? No kinky filenames, just [a-zA-Z0-9.]. My approach specifically doesn't like colons or spaces, I

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-03 10:28, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put together this one-liner after perusing 'man zcat': find /local/amavis/virusmails -name *.gz -print | xargs zcat -l out.txt It puts out multiple instances of stuff like this: compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread James Long
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:46:43 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 1/3/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] I've got a directory with a large number of gzipped files in it (over 110k) along with a few thousand

Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-02 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking for a little help. I've got a directory with a large number of gzipped files in it (over 110k) along with a few thousand uncompressed files. I'd like to find the average uncompressed size of the gzipped files, and ignore the

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-02 Thread James Long
Message: 28 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:20:08 -0800 From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Batch file question - average size of file in directory To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed All, I don't even