[X-Unix] finding duplicate files

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Wed Jun 20 11:54:07 PDT 2007


On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:47 PMJun 20, 2007, Eric F Crist wrote:

> In case you wanted to know,  you could gzip anything that's not  
> already gzipped by doing a similar command:
>
> perl -e 'foreach $file ( `find . | grep -v .gz` ) { chomp ( $file =  
> $file ) ; if ( -ne "$file.gz" ) { print "gzipping file: $file; gzip  
> $file; } }'
>

Sorry to reply to myself, but I'm wrong!  the line should be:

perl -e 'foreach $file ( `find . | grep -v .gz` ) { chomp ( $file =  
$file ) ; if ( !-e "$file.gz" ) { print "gzipping file: $file; gzip  
$file; } }'

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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks




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