Shell Programming and Scripting

Trying to figure out the command to read a file that contains the paths to six files, then compresses those files

Any attempts/ideas/thoughts from your side?

I know how to compress the files with the tar command, but I'm unsure if using the while read do string of commands will work.
Here is what I have so far:

Code:

Echo "Creating compressed file from file1"
While read file1
Do
Echo "Contents of file are:"
Cat file1
Tar -zcvf file1.tgz
Echo "The size of file1.tar.gz is:"

(Need command to display size and file name of compressed file)

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There are quite some syntactical errors and inconsistencies in your snippet.
- All the commands NEED to be lower case.
- The while loop is missing the done < srcfile.
- The file1 variable is not expanded ( $ sign missing)
- tar doesn't have a path to be tarred.
- There's two different extensions of the tar file.

ls -l will display the required values.

Sorry, iPad auto capitalizes. Didn't add the done at the end, but not sure if I need to use the while do done commands for this. When I run the command like it is above it stops after the first echo.

The redirected while ... do ... done will do exactly what you want.

Ok here is what I have:

Code:

echo "Creating Compressed File from file1"
while read file1; do
echo "Contents of file are:"
cat file1
tar -zcvf file1.tgz
echo "The size of file1.tgz is:"
stat file1.tgz
done

But when I run it, it just stops after the first

Code:

echo

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