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Old 10-18-2005
How to Uncompress a whole directory
Hi,

Can any one give me the shell command to rename more than one files to .Z extension in a directoy or path.

As well as how can i uncompress a whole directory with a single shell command?

rEgards,
Tayyab
# 2  
Old 10-18-2005
compressdir will compress a whole directory, uncompressdir uncompresses.
# 3  
Old 10-18-2005
I notice that AIX does not have compressdir so would the steps be to use tar to back them up and then compress?
# 4  
Old 10-19-2005
SCO Unixware does'nt have compressdir too
Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
But SCO Unixware does not have compressdir command too. What shall I do in this case, and what about renaming more than one files in a direcotry to .Z extension with single shell command.
# 5  
Old 10-19-2005
Code:
tar -cf - dir_to_compress | compress > outputfile.tar.Z

This should work on almost any unix system.
# 6  
Old 10-19-2005
Code:
# uncompress dir
for file in `find /path/to/dir -name \*.Z`
do
    uncompress $file
done

#compress dir 
for file in `find /path/to/dir -name \*.Z`
do
    compress $file
done

compressdir and uncompressdir are just wrappers like I have written above...
 
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