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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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