fighting with xargs :-(

[Cameron Simpson]

On 25Jun2006 21:51, Don Russell <fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com> wrote:
| Les Mikesell wrote:
| >[snip]
| >  Is there some reason to keep
| >the compressed and uncompressed versions in the same
| >directory?
| 
| A typical application for this sort of thing is to take advantage of 
| +Multiview in Apache. If there is a .gz version of a file and a 
| "regular" version of the same file, Apache can be be configured to serve 
| the.gz file if the browser supports it.
| 
| Should I open a bugzilla/RFE against gzip to provide an option to keep 
| the original file? I think this sort of  use is getting more common.

Why not just write a tiny shell script wrapper for gzip?
Rip it out of your for-loop and make a one-line script, then call that.
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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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