Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

my log server is completely full with logs.
I have used gzip to compress logs, but as i tried, 7z has a better compression, it saves the half size of my server. I want to uncompress .gz files, then compress them to .7z

Can you please help me with a script that does this:

1. uncompress *.gz file (logs are text files)
2. then compress the uncompressed file in 7z

Also, i dont want that script aks me "do you want to delete original file?"
I want that script, after compressing to 7z, deletes the file.

Thank you very much for your time!

Ervin

Code:

for i in *.gz ; do gunzip -d -c "$i" | 7za a -si "${i/.gz/.7z}" ; done

If you want you can add rm -f "$i" in loop in order to delete old archives, but it is not recommended. Better do it by hand afther you check if everything is ok.

Thank you very much! is was perfect!