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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash: Gzip files in Directory and itīs Subdirectories Post 302393988 by JamesCarter on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 07:19:40 AM
Old 02-10-2010
Bash: Gzip files in Directory and itīs Subdirectories

Hello dear Community,
I have a task to wrtie a script which will gzip not zipped files in a directory and itīs subdirectories. I succeeded in gzippung the directory but not the subdirectories:

Code:
#/bin/bash
#go to the directory where to zip
cd $1
#Zip unzipped files
for i in `ls | xargs file | awk -F: ' ! /gzip/{print $1}'`
do
gzip $i

done

I am a newby at scriptiung. Found the above script in parts somwehre in the web.

What do I must add to let the script zip files in subdirectories of the directory aswell as files in the directory.
pls Help Smilie
 

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NAME
vidir - edit directory SYNOPSIS
vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-] ... DESCRIPTION
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited. When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are how vidir keeps track of what items are changed. Delete lines to remove files from the directory, or edit filenames to rename files. You can also switch pairs of numbers to swap filenames. Note that if "-" is specified as the directory to edit, it reads a list of filenames from stdin and displays those for editing. Alternatively, a list of files can be specified on the command line. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Verbosely display the actions taken by the program. EXAMPLES
vidir vidir *.jpeg Typical uses. find | vidir - Edit subdirectory contents too. To delete subdirectories, delete all their contents and the subdirectory itself in the editor. find -type f | vidir - Edit all files under the current directory and subdirectories. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EDITOR Editor to use. VISUAL Also supported to determine what editor to use. AUTHOR
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