[Solved] Help with a script to gzip/move files

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Originally Posted by fretagi

LUDWIG:

You are right the issue is september only:
I am going to test your script , although I did not understand the "gzip -9" section. can you explain? if its possible

If you take a moment to look at the gzip manual page, the -9 option (aka --best) is for maximum compression.

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