gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:49:44PM -0400, Joe Tseng wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet...  I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension.  I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file.  Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do this?

"gzip *" will do what you want.

When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it,
but will emit a warning that it's doing so.

Otherwise, you could use something like:

find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip

Which would do the same as "gzip *", but would ignore any files
with a .tar.gz extension.

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