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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compress the contents of a directory while copying data into it Post 302275682 by user1602 on Monday 12th of January 2009 01:40:23 AM
Old 01-12-2009
Compress the contents of a directory while copying data into it
Hi guys

I have a need to compress the contents of a directory while I am copying data into it. I was able to do this when it was only one file by doing as below:

STEP1: mknod myfile p

STEP2: chmod 777 myfile

STEP3: compress -v < myfile > myfile.Z &

STEP4: cp -p xyz_file myfile

STEP5: rm myfile

But now my requirement is to have multiple files copied into a directory and compress while the copying is happening so that I dont use a lot of space. Can anyone of you give me some idea of how I can achieve this. For example I want to copy the contents of a directory called source (has file1, file2, file3 and file4) to backup.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

RB
 

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rsvg

rsvg(1) 							   User Commands							   rsvg(1)

NAME

       rsvg - convert SVG files into raster images

SYNOPSIS

       rsvg  [--dpi  number]  [--format  png|jpeg] [--height integer] [--version] [--width integer] [--x-zoom number] [--y-zoom number] infile.svg
       outfile.png|outfile.jpeg

DESCRIPTION

       rsvg converts SVG images into PNG and JPEG raster images.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --dpi number    Set the resolution of the image in pixels per inch. The default value is 90dpi. You can also use -d to specify this option.

       --format png | jSpecify the output format for the converted image. The default value is png. You can also use -f to specify this option.

       --height integerSpecify the height of the converted image. The default value is the height of the original image. You can also  use  -h	to
		       specify this option.

       --version       Display rsvg version information. You can also use -v to specify this option.

       --width integer Specify	the  width  of	the  converted image. The default value is the width of the original image. You can also use -w to
		       specify this option.

       --x-zoom number X Zoom factor, as a percentage. The default value is 1.0.  You can also use -x to specify this option.

       --y-zoom number Y Zoom factor, as a percentage. The default value is 1.0.  You can also use -y to specify this option.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       infile.svg      The name of the input SVG file.

       outfile.png     The name of the converted PNG file.

       outfile.jpeg    The name of the converted JPEG file.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Converting an SVG Image to PNG

       example% rsvg myfile.svg myfile.png

       Example 2: Converting an SVG Image to JPEG at 300dpi Resolution

       example% rsvg -f jpeg -d 300 myfile.svg myfile.jpg

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/rsvg	       Executable to convert SVG files into raster images

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-base-libs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/

       http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/

NOTES

       Original man page written by Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com), Alex Larsson (alex@redhat.com), and others.

       Updated by Laszlo Peter, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    7 Sep 2004								   rsvg(1)
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