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Rev

Thanks Anthon but I'm not quite following you on the script part. Wouldn't a script with gunzip still wipe away the original gz file?

Mike B
– Mike B

2013-05-09 07:05:55 +00:00
Commented May 9, 2013 at 7:05
I added a script, it includes the -c option like you used it, so it keeps the original. Essential the scripts expands the single argument for you. You could change it so that it does a for loop and remove the --max-args argument to xargs for efficiency, but that is probably minor compared to the time gunzip takes

Anthon
– Anthon

2013-05-09 07:12:48 +00:00
Commented May 9, 2013 at 7:12

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