Shell Programming and Scripting

for f in *
do
     file $f
done

#!/bin/ksh

TEST_FILE=/tmp/tester$$
FILE=/tmp/result$$



#first cd to dir 
DIR=/u02/waptv/test

#then run file command to see what files are

for f in ${DIR}/*
do
     file $f >> $TEST_FILE
     done

#Now file TEST_FILE has many things in we need to exclude , such as the compressed files and scripts

cat $TEST_FILE|grep -v compressed|grep -v .sh  > $FILE

#now we have only the non compressed files

#remove colon and whitespace and add a gzip (or compression of choice) to the beginning of the output
TMP=/tmp/temp$$
cat $FILE | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//' -e 's/\://g' -e 's/^/gzip /' >$TMP
mv $TMP $FILE

#Execute output which will compress all the files
. $FILE
# for testing cat $FILE