gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> "gzip *" will do what you want.
>>
>> When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it,
>> but will emit a warning that it's doing so.
>>
>> Otherwise, you could use something like:
>>
>> find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip
>>
> i don't understand the difference.

The 2nd will avoid the warnings emit by "gzip *" when encountering
already-gzipped files.

It all depends on what the user wants.

> .tar.gz files are already gzip'd :), so no need for second case. it will  
> be skipped anyway

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