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Could someone give me an idea how to compress all files from a given directory that are not of type .z (compressed). Please help.

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will do it. The compress program will ignore any file that already has a .Z suffix.

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but just in case, in ksh you can try:

Code:

compress !(*.z)

Or more portably

Code:

compress `find . -type f -not -name "*.z" -print`

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