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Old 01-10-2007
Error zipping in a loop
Hello All,
I have a requirement that i need to gzip each file that is more than 5 days old inside a directory. Could some one help me with the script ?
do i need to write a for loop or can be done through single command?

Thanks,
Sateesh
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Old 01-10-2007
Code:
find . -mtime +5 | xargs gzip

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Old 01-10-2007
gzip only compresses a single file, so you need an intermediate program to generate an archive file which can then be compressed using gzip, so we try something like:
Code:
tar cvf - `find . -type f -mtime +5` | gzip -c 1>outputfile.tgz

To uncompress, you can try something like:
Code:
gunzip -c outputfile.tgz | tar xvf -

Regards,
Tayyab
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