gzip help

mahmoud · 05-15-2008, 11:13 AM

Hi
i have used this command before but i cant remember the syntax quite well
its
ls -l Apr-[0-3][0-9]-2008-*.log | xargs -i@ gzip@
but it is not working
error : xargs: gzip@: No such file or directory

polymath69 · 05-15-2008, 11:21 AM

Quite right you can't remember the syntax. What are you trying to do?

If you want to collect some log files into an archive, you don't want the -l on the ls command. You don't even want to be using the ls command. And you don't want gzip, you want tar.

tar cfz sometarfile.tgz Apr-[0-3][0-9]-2008-*.log

cfz: c = create, f = filename will be given, z = compressed

rayfordj · 05-15-2008, 11:27 AM

I can only guess that you may be after something like this:

Code:

ls -1 Apr-[0-3][0-9]-2008-*.log | xargs -i  gzip {}

the dash one to ls prints one filename per line and then xargs passes that to gzip so that each *.log is compressed to a file of the corresponding filename plus a .gz extension.

Hope this helps.

beadyallen · 05-15-2008, 11:29 AM

Or if you're trying to zip up everything separately, use something like:

Code:

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -iname 'Apr-[0-3][0-9]-2008-*.log' -exec gzip {} \;

edit: Beaten to it. lol

mahmoud · 05-16-2008, 03:02 AM

This was what i was looking for cheers

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayfordj

I can only guess that you may be after something like this:

Code:

ls -1 Apr-[0-3][0-9]-2008-*.log | xargs -i  gzip {}

the dash one to ls prints one filename per line and then xargs passes that to gzip so that each *.log is compressed to a file of the corresponding filename plus a .gz extension.

Hope this helps.

thanks alot that helped everyone