Gzip

[Lucas Peet]

Hmmm...didn't think of that.  I used the xargs one david nicol sent me.
That worked pretty well.  And it was more what I was looking for too...I
remember seeing some shell magic somewhere that had all kinds of [brackets]
and wierd variables to do something like that...

Adding the .gz was okay.  Maybe what I was think of was something more along
the lines of:

music> ls -l
song1.mp3
song2.Mp3
song3.MP3
song4.mp3
etc...

How could I go about re-naming each file's extension so they were all
lowercase while keeping the original filename, or for instance removing the
.gz off all these files but keeping the filename?

-Lucas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at attaway.net>
To: "Lucas Peet" <lpeet at eccod.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Gzip

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> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:
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> > 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!
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> gzip *
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> 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)'
>
> :(
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