On Sat, 29 May 2004, Jake Johnson wrote: > Here is a cool script for anyone that has really big email files and wants to have them compressed. > > > #!/bin/bash > for file in `ls | grep -v gz$ | grep -v sh$` > do > echo "Compressing $file..." > gzip -c $file >> $file.gz > rm $file > touch $file > done Side note to what everyone else said... You don't really have to use the -c, pipe it to the gz file, or rm and touch the file. You could probably get away with: gzip $file touch $file. By just issuing gzip against the file, it will automatically add the .gz extension to the file, after having compressed it, and the original file name will no longer exist. Running "touch" to recreate the file may not be necessary, either, as procmail is usually capable of creating the mail spool file (default INBOX, or other files in your maildir) if it doesn't already exist. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
