RE: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script

[Gogala, Mladen]

I've already got my rear chewed up once for advising "rm -rf /". Not gonna do it again. :) -----Original Message----- From: Brian McGraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script With or without the *really fine* compression flag??  (-rf)   : )   ---------------------------------------------- | Brian McGraw /* DBA */  Infinity Insurance | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ---------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script   The best compression known to man is achieved by using  the 'rm' compression utility. -----Original Message----- From: WLSH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script Hello, list: We have a unix nightly job which will send an email to a user. However, the file size is very large, so we need to zip the file before we send it out. Does anyone know the syntax or command of zipping a file from UNIX ?     Regards,  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com