uncompress

[Mallinath_1]

Hi,
Is there any option in uncompress command to uncompress large file first than smaller ones.

Thanks
Mallinath

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Short answer: no. Sorry.

BTW consider using bzip2 or gzip instead of compress. They not only compress *much* better, but also have a more sophisticated user interface with many more options.

gzip is preinstalled on your system, but both recent builds of gzip and bzip2 are available on my ITRC site: https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ or http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Steven Gillard_2]

Well, not directly, but you can use other shell commands to sort the files based on size first, eg (all one line):

find . -name \*.Z 2>/dev/null | xargs du -k | sort -nr | awk '{print $2}' | xargs uncompress

Regards,
Steve

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Mallinath,

No not possible, try using the gzip compression tool, it is better.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.3/

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[twang]

No, but this may help you,
# ls -l |sort +5 |awk '{printf ("%s\n", $9)}' |xargs uncompress

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

# perl -le'qx"uncompress $_"for sort{-s$b<=>-s$a}<*.Z>'

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn