topic Re: gzip command in Operating System - HP-UX

gzip command

Dan Maul — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:34:16 GMT

I have a dir full of debug logs and I would like to gzip the entire dir.
Can someone Please help me with the commands.
My unix skills are limited. Please forgive.

Re: gzip command

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:41:18 GMT

It really couldn't be simpler:

cd mydir
gzip *.log

That would gzip all the files with ending with .log and replace them with .log.gz.

man gzip for details.

Re: gzip command

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:43:10 GMT

Hi:

# gzip -rv /logdir

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: gzip command

Dan Maul — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:53:13 GMT

Thanks Clay!

You were on the money!

Re: gzip command

blal — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:54:29 GMT

Hi

You can use the following.

ls -al |grep -v ^d |awk '{print $9}'|while read a ;do gzip $a;echo "$a zipped" ;done

(before executing just make sure ls -al |grep ^d is displaying all the file names which you need to be zipped other than sub directory names )

explanation.

ls -al |grep -v ^d --> will extact all the files other than directories(I have taken in to consideration that you may have sub dir in side that dir)

awk '{print $9}' -->will extract the ninth field from the ls -al out put which will be the file names.

then the file names are parsed into a while ,do ,done loop.

this will zip all the files other than directories .

if u have some specific file patter then
for example *.log

ls *.log |while read a ;do gzip $a;echo "$a zipped" ;done
will do .

regds,
baiju

Re: gzip command

Rory R Hammond — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:59:10 GMT

Asume that your log files are in:
/mnt/log/archive

gzip -r /mnt/log/archive

Will gzip all the files.
This works like the compressdir command

Assume that you have directory tree that you want to
compress up and leave in place:

|-bin----------|-runhpterm2---
|-hithere-----
|-test2-------
|
| |-OO081701.DBF-
| |-OO081801.DBF-
User-----| |-OO081901.DBF-
| |-OO082001.DBF-
| |-OO082101.DBF-
|-data---------|-OO082201.DBF-
|-OO082301.DBF-
|-OO082401.DBF-
|-OO100201.DBF-

gzip -r /home/User

will do files in all the directories.

Ror

Re: gzip command

Tim D Fulford — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:45:41 GMT

Hi

Not related to your problem as that has been amply answered above. But when transporting the files (I assume you will e-mail these files somewhere/to someone) remember if using FTP to use BINARY transfer, otherwise those files will end up corrupted!!

Tim