gzip, relocate and remove in 1!

[EU-Admins-UNIX]

Hi

Is it possible to gzip and relocate the compressed file and remove the original uncompressed file in one command?

I know if you gzip in the same location, the .gz file replaces the original file, and that if you use the -c and the >, both files remain.

Regards

Tariq

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The closest you are going to be able to get is something like this:

# gzip -c afile > afile.gz && rm -f afile

The '&& rm -f afile' will remove the file afile IF the gzip command succeeds.

There is nothing native in gzip, that I can find, that will do what you want to do.

[EU-Admins-UNIX]

Neither can I.

Thanks Patrick.

Tariq