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Compress a large file

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Mag0007

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Feb 15, 2005
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Hi All,

New to solaris.

What is the best way to compress a ASCII file in solaris. The size is about 50GB.

Would a simple bzip2 filename suffice?

TIA
 
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Depends what you mean by 'best'. bzip2 will probably give you the best compression, but won't be quick. gzip -1 won't compress as much, but will be much quicker.

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