Like gzip, each file is separately inside the folder, and then if the source file is successfully deleted

Question

I use the following command to simply copy each file to a folder:

for file in *; do gzip "$file"; done

But it saves the source files. I want to know if there is a way to delete files automatically after they are successfully gzipped.

Thank.

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Farshid Apr 28 '12 at 12:58

3 answers

+1 @Tim Pote .

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.gz' -exec gzip "{}" \;

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Adam Liss 28 . '12 13:53

If you have several thousand files, to prevent an "argument list too long", use

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.gz' | while read file; do
    gzip "$file"
done

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rubo77 Mar 10 '16 at 14:27

Tim Pote · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-28T13:13:09+0000

I do not understand the question you have. According to the gzip man page :

If possible, each file is replaced with one with the extension .gz, while maintaining the same ownership, access time and modification.

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