Noel Weston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:02 AM): >> > Can someone suggest a utility that can easily compress one or multiple > log files individually in gzip with a single command? I want to use gzip so > Analog can easily read each compressed log file, >> > but as I understand it, gzip (the original utility) can't individually > "gzip" multiple files at once. I'm on Win2000. >> >> > (Any other solution to automatically compress log files and make them > readable by Analog on Windows is welcomed!) >> >> gzip only compresses a single file. It doesn't matter what platform. >> That's the spec. >> >> You can use tar to collect several files into one archive and then >> compress it with gz. In fact GNU tar will do the gz compression in one >> command. See http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html for details. You >> can download a windows version from the cygnus project: >> http://www.cygwin.com/. >> >> Otherwise, use any zip program, e.g. info-zip >> (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/) or winzip (http://winzip.com/), >> and just use the command-line interface to uncompress the files to >> stdout as Analog's UNCOMPRESS command (see >> http://analog.cx/docs/logfile.html#UNCOMPRESS for details) >>
> I read this a different way - "can gzip compress multiple files in one go > ?". > On win2000 and NT here, gzip *.* will compress as many files as there are in > the directory. I forgot where I got the windows gzip binary (version 1.2.4) > from, but it was somewhere obvious... Oh, right. http://gzip.org/ That's the "obvious" location that I often forget. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
