[X-Unix] finding duplicate files

[Dave Higgins]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> 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; } }'

Love these little one-liners... But, I'm drawing errors when testing  
this...

in sh: Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e  
line 1.

in tcsh: -e: Event not found.

The first one, in reply to the OP, works great, though. :-)

Dave.