1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I tried Compress ; gzip and bzip . And they don't always compress files to small . Can someone tell me if there is any compress tool better than those ? thanks (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello. Can any1 help me with the compress command. The -b option takes the number of bits used for encoding. can u expalin why this number of bits is used and for what purpose. what is the maximum number we can provide? In SFU these number has a valod range between 12 and 16 y?? (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Anybody know what happened here? 162 lab2-36:~/try_direct/another> compress url.txt url.txt: -- file unchanged (8 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to figure out how I can get an equivalent output to a text file such as if I use gunzip -l filename in that gunzip will output the previous file size and the compressed size and the ratio... is there a way to achieve this with compress and zip? i am very new at shell... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I would like to archive some of the scripts below(USFINUM042006_01.CSV USFINUM042006_02.CSV and USFINUM042006_03.CSV )and also use a wildcard e.g. <command> USFINUM*.CSV. Also there are a lot of similar files but I want only the three latest files to be compressed. Which is the best... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

People i have files.arc i need to compress one by one...but they need to have the same date for example jan 30 1234.arc jan 30 12334.arc jan 30 rejrne.arc jan 30 e423e4.arc jan 30 afdhnfhd.arc jan 31 aresdfds.arc I need to compres the jan 30 .arc only thank you very much (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there a way to copy a file and compress it at the same time? I realize the file can be copied and then compressed, but I was wondering if it's possible to do it in a one-line command and for that matter, if it would be more efficient to perform the operation with a one-line command? Thanks. (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Duplicate threads merged jmc Hi, I have a script wherein I want to use gzip instead of compress. # cat dly_appsfiles_bkp.ksh # # dly_appsfiles_bkp.ksh # date_stamp=`date +%m%d%y` base_dir=/u05/gld1 sub_dir=apps bkp_dir=/u00/backup/GLD1/APPS... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All ! We have to compress a big data file in unix server and transfer it to windows and uncompress it using winzip in windows. I have used the utility ZIP like the below. zip -e <newfilename> df2_test_extract.dat but when I compress files greater than 4 gb using zip utility, it... (4 Replies)

10. HP-UX

I have file with large size in HP-UX os. I need to compress on HP-UX and ftp to linux server and i need to uncompress the files. How can i do this? Any help is highly appreciated.. (3 Replies)