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Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

rana786 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:35:14 GMT

Hi all,

I need to compress multiple files of a directory. All files started with the string msc... and ended with the alphabet p or z should have to be compressed. Can anybody help with this issue?

Re: Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

Hemmetter — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:48:02 GMT

Hi Rana

Two solutions:

1) compress single files:

for i in msc*[pz]; do
compress $i
done

2)
create a compressed archive:

# tar cvf - msc*[pz] | compress >msc.tar.Z
# rm msc*[pz]

rgds
hgh

Re: Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

Thummalu — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:55:37 GMT

Hi Rana,

go to the directory you want to compress and run the following commands:

tar -cvfp msc-pz.tar msc*[pz]

gzip -9 msc-pz.tar

Thats it

Br
Thummalu

Re: Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:12:01 GMT

# tar -cvf msc.tar msc*
# gzip msc.tar

-Arun

Re: Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

RAC_1 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:15:20 GMT

ll msc*(p|z) > file_list
-->Check it lists only the files that you want.
Then
for i in $(cat file_list)
do
compress ${i}
done

Re: Compressing multiple files using string of a directory

rana786 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:35:33 GMT

great