Compress and move in one step.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

How to move and compress several files in one step?

Sometimes manually I need to move some of Oracle archive log files to another directory on the fly due to lack of space.

I need a quick command to achieve this and may be cron it.

Thanks,

Gulam.

[David Burgess]

I can do it in 2, but it can go on one line in your cron.

/bin/compress a; /bin/mv a.Z /tmp/test

where /tmp/test is a directory.

Regards,

Dave.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

you can use
compress -c filetocompress > /path/to/dir/compressedfile
-c is output to stdout


greetings,

Michael

[Patrick Wallek]

Another way:

# compress < filetocompress > /path/filetocompress.Z

If you want a script:

for FILE in $(cat listoffilestocompress)
do
echo "Compressing ${FILE}"
compress < ${FILE} > /path/${FILE}.Z
done

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

I am trying to MOVE and Compress together in one step.

But the posted answers jut show how to compress but not how to move and compress as well.

Gulam.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Gulam,
can you tell us, what the difference is between out approach and your's is?
Both in one step isn't possible.
I let the compress output it's compressed stram on stdout and put it there, where it is supposed to be. Then you can rm the orignal. If you think, you can spare a temporary file during compression, I think that is not possible.

Michael

[RAC_1]

May be this is OK for you.

mv file /path/file && compress /path/file

Anil