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11-29-2005

here2learn

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Thanks JYOUNG. That allowed me to accomplish the task albeit not with a one-line command.

It appears that copying & gzipping thru a pipe isn't any faster than copying, gzipping & moving a 120MB file.

Guess I'll stick w/ the non-PIPE procedure.

Last edited by here2learn; 12-03-2005 at 02:59 PM.