On 2007-01-03 10:42, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/2/07, James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip my problem description> > >Hi, Kurt. > > > >Can I make some assumptions that simplify things? No kinky filenames, > >just [a-zA-Z0-9.]. My approach specifically doesn't like colons or > >spaces, I bet. Also, you say gzipped, so I'm assuming it's ONLY gzip, > >no bzip2, etc. > > Right, no other compression types - just .gz. > > Here's a small snippet of the directory listing: > > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 108208 Dec 21 06:15 dummy-zKLQEWrDDOZh > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 24989 Dec 28 17:29 dummy-zfzaEjlURTU1 > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 30596 Jan 2 19:37 stuff-0+-OvVrXcEoq.gz > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 2055 Dec 22 20:25 stuff-0+19OXqwpEdH.gz > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 13781 Dec 30 03:53 stuff-0+1bMFK2XvlQ.gz > -rw-r----- 1 kurt kurt 11485 Dec 20 04:40 stuff-0+5jriDIt0jc.gz > >> Here's a first draft [...] > > Hmmm.... > > That's the same basic approach that Giogos took, to uncompress the > file and count bytes with wc. I'm liking the 'zcat -l' contstruct, as > it looks more flexible, but then I have to parse the output, probably > with grep and cut.
Excellent. I didn't know about the -l option of gzip(1) until today :) You can easily extract the uncompressed size, because it's always in column 2 and it contains only numeric digits: gzip -l *.gz *.Z *.z | awk '{print $2}' | grep '[[:digit:]]\+' Then you can feed the resulting stream of uncompressed sizes to the awk script I sent before :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"