Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok. What compression software do you use: gzip, zip, compress?

Identify the files in the directory that do not have the file type (.gz, .zip, .Z).

You need to add the correct filetype into this script and the correct compress command.

Code:

filetype=you put an entry here like .gz or .zip
find /path/to/directory -type f  ! -name "\*"${filetype}  -exec  your comopress command goes here like gzip  {} \;

Note the {} thing is the file name, so if your compress software is gzip, then you only use the word gzip, becase the file name is already there.

filetype=.gz
find /home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpose -type -f ! -name "\*"${filetype} -exec gzip \;

this is not compressing.

Can you please explain me what it does exactly.

Try this...

Code:

filetype=".gz"
find /home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpose -type -f  ! -name "*${filetype}" -exec gzip {} \;

--ahamed

Hi ahamed,

Its still not working..

Someone can you please explain what the find command will does exactly

Can you list the files you want to compress?

find command is trying to find the files in the directory /home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpose whose extension is not .gz
Do you have any files inside this directory without the extension .gz?

Please paste the output of

Code:

find /home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpose -type -f  ! -name "*.gz"

Which OS and Shell are you using?

--ahamed

c3batch@cissrv67:/home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpose >
$ uname -a
AIX cissrv67 1 6 000FBC01D900

c3batch@cissrv67:/home/c3/qa/data/archive/test/radhika_dont_touch/testing_purpos e >
$ ls -ltr
total 16
-rw------- 1 c3batch c3dev 47 Nov 05 00:19 abc.txt
-rw------- 1 c3batch c3dev 47 Nov 05 00:20 aaa.txt

the directory may contain any file type..

may be .xls,.xlsx etc..

I have files inside the directory.