On Jul 25, 2009, at 8:29 PM, sgoldman wrote:
> If there was ever a need for a script this is it.. little
> experience here though..
No script needed. Just:
gunzip *.gz
If that throws a too many files error then you should use a find
command:
find . -depth 1 -name "*.gz" -print | xargs gunzip
This finds all files in the current directory (.) but no deeper than
the current directory (-depth 1) that match "*.gz" and execs gunzip on
each one. It is slower than a single shell glob. Much slower. It
has to open and stat the directories and then exec gunzip for every
file. On the other hand, it works even when you have so many files
that you can't use a shell glob.
--Rich P.
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