On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> "gzip *" will do what you want. >> >> When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it, >> but will emit a warning that it's doing so. >> >> Otherwise, you could use something like: >> >> find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip >> > i don't understand the difference.
The 2nd will avoid the warnings emit by "gzip *" when encountering already-gzipped files. It all depends on what the user wants. > .tar.gz files are already gzip'd :), so no need for second case. it will > be skipped anyway -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
