Gurus,
My own stupidity (or ignorance...or both) put me in the situation I am in and I need help please:
1-My shell account (OS: HP UX v11) contains several work directories (/docs, /scripts...)
2-Our sysadmin has implemented aggressive disk quotas so I have to compress the files I put here to avoid running out of space.
3-I decided to teach myself how to use GZIP and, w/o thinking about trying it on a "dummy" file first, I did
>gzip -v9 -S .suf *.doc
on the 50 some files on my /docs directory. My files are all now successfully compressed with a "<filename>.doc.suf" suffix.
4-How do I de-compress those now? I have tried
>gzip -d -S .suf *doc
I get "unknown suffix -- ignored" 50 times
5-Same error msg if I try
>gzip -d *.suf OR
>gzip -d -S .suf *.doc OR
>gzip -d *.doc
I put myself in this stupid situation because of my carelessness. What am I do wrong here? Which syntax should I use?
PLEASE HELP!!!
Al.