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 Chadwick jdc 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]"
