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Since you cannot have multiple files having the same name in the directory, you will need to delete the existing file and create your link or call your link something else.

Not sure I understand, can you provide an example of the desired output?

Sorry, didn't read your message correctly (coffee machine is broken)

To get files greater than 0 bytes: "find . -size +0c"

You could just do "find . -size 0c"

Sri
Since you want to count the number of lines, how does it matter if a file has 0 bytes? You could simply do "cat * | wc -l" to get the line count.

Amit

Correction -- it should be

for i in `ls -1`; do echo $i; bzip2 $i ; done

(-1, instead of -l)

Thanks for the response. You're right, I just needed to gzip the files. I do want them individually though (for various reasons). The command that I eventually stumbled on and which works fine is :
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I have a ton of files in a directory of the format app.log.2008-04-04

I'd like to run a command that would archive each of these files as app.log.2008-04-04.tgz

I tried a few...