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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting KSH - Issue with endless loop. Post 302532872 by DGPickett on Wednesday 22nd of June 2011 09:16:12 AM
Old 06-22-2011
What is in the log? Where is the rest of the script? There is no infinite loop here.

You save some overhead doing it on a pipe and not one at a time: 'find . . . | xargs compress'

If you have many CPU and time is important, something that runs N at a time like my bctl tool speeds things up.

Compress is getting old, faster than gzip, bzip2 but with less compression, and slower than lzjb, which might also have a bit better compression, and I have not seen a lzjb command, but if you switch to zfs, you can just turn on lzjb compression and skip the script.
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gzcompress

GZCOMPRESS(3)								 1							     GZCOMPRESS(3)

gzcompress - Compress a string

SYNOPSIS

       string gzcompress (string  $data, [int  $level = -1], [int  $encoding = ZLIB_ENCODING_DEFLATE])

DESCRIPTION

	This function compresses the given string using the ZLIB data format.

	For details on the ZLIB compression algorithm see the document "ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3" (RFC 1950).

       Note

	       This is not the same as gzip compression, which includes some header data. See gzencode(3) for gzip compression.

PARAMETERS

	      o $data
		- The data to compress.

	      o $level
		- The level of compression. Can be given as 0 for no compression up to 9 for maximum compression.  If -1 is used, the default com-
		pression of the zlib library is used which is 6.

	      o $encoding
		- One of ZLIB_ENCODING_* constants.

RETURN VALUES

	The compressed string or FALSE if an error occurred.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      gzcompress(3) example

	      <?php
	      $compressed = gzcompress('Compress me', 9);
	      echo $compressed;
	      ?>

CHANGELOG

       +--------+-----------------------------+
       |Version |			      |
       |	|			      |
       |	|	  Description	      |
       |	|			      |
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       | 5.4.0	|			      |
       |	|			      |
       |	|  Added $encoding parameter. |
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       +--------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO

       gzdeflate(3), gzinflate(3), gzuncompress(3), gzencode(3).

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