Gzip

[Duane Attaway]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:

> I need to gzip all the files in a specific directory...there's lots of
> them, and I'm not up for doing it by hand.  How can I gzip each file,
> while keeping it's original filename?

hmmmm... let me find a directory I don't mind munging to try this out... 
ok... it works!

gzip *

that would append a .gz to each filename, but you mentioned the name 
shouldn't be changed, so, how about...

gzip -S "" *

would append a null suffix to each filename, leaving it unchanged; 
however, the authors of gzip apparently do not wish to have that happen as 
it burps out the following:

gzip: incorrect suffix '(null)'

:(