Now I know this probably won't work )it's a 1.3GB file and still going in the background) as I'm trying to compress a file that's already compressed (with tar -z), and it's now producing output on the screen that's just complete rubbish, with umlauts and so forth, but the thing is that my speaker has gone mad. I'm using cygwin on windows XP, and the default 'ding' is playing about four times a second almost non-stop whilst the compression is going. But there are no messages on the screen other than the console window output.
You are uncompressing to standard output, i.e. your screen.
Code:
$ gzip --help
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
usage: gzip [-acdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
-a --ascii ascii text; convert end-of-lines using local conventions
-c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
-d --decompress decompress
-f --force force overwrite of output file and compress links
-h --help give this help
-l --list list compressed file contents
-L --license display software license
-n --no-name do not save or restore the original name and time stamp
-N --name save or restore the original name and time stamp
-q --quiet suppress all warnings
-r --recursive operate recursively on directories
-S .suf --suffix .suf use suffix .suf on compressed files
-t --test test compressed file integrity
-v --verbose verbose mode
-V --version display version number
-1 --fast compress faster
-9 --best compress better
--rsyncable Make rsync-friendly archive
file... files to (de)compress. If none given, use standard input.
is forcibly compressing the initial file (already compressed) with a compression level of 9 and printing the stats in verbose mode to the screen, but compressing to a file (the second filename listed)?
Why then does that have anything to do with the speakers? The command ran for an hour before I stopped it - the 'dings' were driving me mad.
is forcibly compressing the initial file (already compressed) with a compression level of 9 and printing the stats in verbose mode to the screen, but compressing to a file (the second filename listed)?
Why then does that have anything to do with the speakers? The command ran for an hour before I stopped it - the 'dings' were driving me mad.
H.
When you send the binary output of gzip (a lot of unprintable chars and some terminal control commands) to stdout the terminal beeps in protest.
Another thing, compressing a gzip file again will not save any disk space and you will be spending twice the amount of time compressing and extracting the archive.
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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
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