Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:49:44PM -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file. Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do this? 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 Which would do the same as gzip *, but would ignore any files with a .tar.gz extension. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc 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 | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring
On October 10, 2008 02:49:44 pm Joe Tseng wrote: I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file. Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do this? tia, - Joe _ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!5 50F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008__ _ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gzip * will do it. It leaves out files that already have the .gz extension. gunzip * will put them back the way they were. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring
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. .tar.gz files are already gzip'd :), so no need for second case. it will be skipped anyway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring
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 Chadwickjdc 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 | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
