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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
**BTW- very new to scripting**
I have created a shell script to gzip the public_html files on our website. I have tested this script on another directory on our site and it worked, but when I replaced the directory with the public_html directory it failed.
I am executing this script via a... (7 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I have a random test file: test.txt, size: 146
$ ll test.txt
$ 146 test.txt
Take 1:
$ cat test.txt | gzip > test.txt.gz
$ ll test.txt.gz
$ 124 test.txt.gz
Take 2:
$ gzip test.txt
$ ll test.txt.gz
$ 133 test.txt.gz
As you can see, gzipping a file and piping into gzip... (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to gzip a directory contents with the option "-r". The file timestamps remaining same but not the directory, how to retain it too.
ex:
$ ls -l 20090624065000
total 1213360
-rwxrwxrwx 1 cisa users 529513119 Jun 24 2009 A
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello folks
I hope every one is fine. I need to ask one question.
I have directory
/xx/abcd/data/
inside that data there are files like
11.txt
23.txt
12.txt
*.txt
i want that i will do compress each txt file inside that directory /xx/abcd/data/.
But it will not gzip data... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello dear Community,
I have a task to wrtie a script which will gzip not zipped files in a directory and itīs subdirectories. I succeeded in gzippung the directory but not the subdirectories:
#/bin/bash
#go to the directory where to zip
cd $1
#Zip unzipped files
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6. AIX
I have two huge files on AIX Ver 5.0. File size of each file is 6238884375 bytes. There is huge difference in sizes when I zip them by gzip coomand.
File1.gz 586147513
File2.gz 547585695
Any idea why it is so?
Thanks
Sumit (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey there...
Just has a query.
I have been trying to zip and unzip a directory.
I used gzip -c -r <directory> to recursively search the directory and zip it
Now is want to unzip the directory, by
gunzip -r <filename>.gz
The problem is that the unzip creates on file with the contents... (1 Reply)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
There are multiple files in a directory with different names.How can they be gzipped such that the timestamp of the files is not changed. (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a receive script file which had lots of direcorties to process,but now,I don't want to hardcode them,I need input the directory name in a Property.txt file,then write shell code to read the directory name from Property.txt to the script file so I can get flexible on it.But when I ran the sh... (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I need to search files starting with RPT_0, RPT_1,........ in a directory. How can I implement that through a shell script. Also I want to read the last line of each file after searching them. Can someone help me out in this regard.
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