Saturday, June 27, 2009

Recompress gzipped files as bzip2

Just a quickie. No warranties of course ;)

Recompress gzipped items as bzip2

Handy if you need to conserve space in an archive.

for i in `ls *.gz`; do gunzip $i && bzip2 `echo $i | sed s/\.gz//` && echo "finished $i" ; done;

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