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I know that gzip compress a file, but I would want to know. How to compress a list of files, each file in their own GZIP file ?
I need to use the list of a folder: ls log.2011 And for each file create a zipped file.
Any ideas ?
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I know that gzip compress a file, but I would want to know. How to compress a list of files, each file in their own GZIP file ?
I need to use the list of a folder: ls log.2011 And for each file create a zipped file.
Any ideas ?
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gzip
will always compress each file into a single .gz file when given a list of files on its command line.
For example
$ gzip -r log.2011
to recursively walk the log.2011 directory and compress all files it finds, or
$ gzip log.2011/*
to compress only the files in the log.2011 directory without descending into subdirectories.
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This will output a gz archive for each matching file, files are replaced by the archive:
gzip fileprefix*
Have a look to the '-r' flag too.
So your file log.2011 lists compressed files? You want them all compressed as a single archive right? I'd look at using tar. – James T Snell – 2011-07-11T15:59:17.633
do you have a bunch of folders with x amount of files in and you want a zip for each folder? because multiple files requires tar aswell. – squareborg – 2011-07-11T16:13:38.273