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Old 04-21-2004
Compressing files

I have never used this command before. I need to use the "compress" command to compress all files located in the subdirectories under the following directories:

/home/ftp/inbound/Fordin

Please advise, I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Syed
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Old 04-21-2004
compress and gzip are common compression utilities. gzip provided tighter compression. see man compress or man gzip
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Old 04-21-2004
Please show me an example using compress for the information I provide. I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Syed
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Old 04-21-2004
compressdir is usually found in most versions of unix - it's a front end for compress:
Code:
compressdir /home/ftp/inbound/Fordin

 
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