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Old 04-06-2010
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I have zipped and unzipped files. I want to runa command that will read from all of the files (zipped and unzipped) at the same time without UNCOMPRESSING the original files because I dont have space to uncompress them. How do I do this??

Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-06-2010
look into 'man gzcat'
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Old 04-07-2010
Help me to read from both ziped and unziped files
Thanks, I read 'man gzcat'. But I did not find out if it will leave the rest of the files COMPRESSED or if it will DECOMPRESS them. Like I said, I want it to leave them COMPRESSED.
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Old 04-07-2010
gzcat writes to stdout it leaves the compressed file alone.
I dunno about one command but try this:
Code:
for file in /path/to/myfiles/*
do
    [[ ${file##*.} = "gz"  ]] && gzcat $file || cat $file

done

 
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