On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, David Eric <cii...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > as far as print zip_command, i would add that to the program however, > doesnt > > just declaring it actually trigger it..thus it would executed and the > > command line would get printed as well? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "declaring", but assigning a value to > zip_command, as you do, and printing it, as I suggest, do just that - > assign and print. It is the call to os.system() that executes the > command. > > oh i see the if os.sytem() command in the program is what ran the > zip_command > > > the actual program i was looking to write would take: > > file1,file2,and file3, in /Users/davidteboul/bin/python > > and condense them into individual files; file1.gz, file2.gz and file3.gz > and > > save them in a directory already made - (/Users/davidteboul/backups) > > I think that doing this with gzip, you have to first copy the files to > the backup directory, then run gzip on the backup. > > > > ps..did i post and reply all corretly? > > You can intersperse your comments with the original email, as I have > done above, rather than putting your entire reply at the end. The > reply all is fine. > > Kent > thanks for the help, ill try some stuff and see if i can get it to work
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