Read "man gzip". houuc8 %ls -l total 132 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rigler itsadm 134072 Jan 27 07:22 foo houuc8 %gzip foo -c >bar.gz houuc8 %ls -l total 189 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rigler itsadm 56904 Jan 27 07:22 bar.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 rigler itsadm 134072 Jan 27 07:22 foo
-Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:16 AM To: redhat list Subject: Re: one question about gzip Sorry for bad English. I was trying to compress file foo and store it in file named bar.gz ( I was not trying to compress a compressed file). the command "gzip foo" will give the file a name foo.gz defaultly. Is there a command by using which I can redirect the output compressed file to bar.gz ( not foo.gz) Thanks On 26 Jan 2003, Drew Einhorn wrote: > Why? > > Unless you have violated the usual naming conventions and bar.gz > has not already been gzipped, which is just plain confusing and will > eventually bite someone when they are confused. > > Compressing a compressed file doesn't work. The file will probably > increase in size. > > gunzipping the file then using a better compression program such a bzip > would probably be useful. but might not be worth the trouble unless the > uncompressed file is really big. > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:46, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > > > I have a file foo, I to gzip it. > > by using > > "gzip foo" > > It will get a file called foo.gz > > > > but i want a compress file named bar.gz > > > > Is there a way to do that? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -------------------------------- Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900 -------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
