1. 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)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have a directory under which 10 more directories are there. In each 10 directories there are several files. I want to do FTP. But in FTP we cannt Transfer the main directory. each Time we have to go to the respective directry and then we have to to FTP. For this instance I... (9 Replies)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. Programming

Hi all, I would like to know if an API for compress (.Z) exists in C ? I want to write a program which process a large number of data files with efficient compression at the end. Thanks http://fedora.unix.com/images/misc/progress.gif (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi guys, i've read that i need to use tar first before gzip. just wanted to be sure if there's no way of compressing a folder with all its files like winzip in windows? using tar then gzip in unix, i will need to open 2 zip files in order to get the files unlike winzip. i'd appreciate any... (2 Replies)

8. Web Development

Hi all, Someone please help with a script that will compress a directory for backed up: home/main/directory2Bcompressed/ home/main/directory2Bcompressed_date.zip Then all the files in the directory are to be deleted right afterwards, emptied out for new files to come in: ... (6 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have scheduled couple of shell scripts to run using 'at' command. The o/p of at -l is: $ at -l 1320904800.a Thu Nov 10 01:00:00 2011 1320894000.a Wed Nov 9 22:00:00 2011 1320876000.a Wed Nov 9 17:00:00 2011 $ uname -a SunOS dc2prcrptetl2 5.9 Generic_122300-54 sun4u sparc... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Experts, I am new to this forum. Thank you for moderator to allow me to join. I have a question about automatic compression using sh and crontab on an application which runs on the Suse Linux Server 11 SP4. My question is how to compress every file in a directory into its own tar... (5 Replies)