gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

[Mike Jeays]

On October 10, 2008 02:49:44 pm Joe Tseng wrote:
> I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet...  I want
> to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz
> extension.  I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a
> single .tar.gz file.  Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do
> this?
>
> tia,
>
>  - Joe
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"gzip *" will do it.  It leaves out files that already have the .gz extension.
"gunzip *" will put them back the way they were.

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Mike Jeays
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