find and compress the file without .z 2

[peac3]

Hi Guys,

We have number of files in some directories that we need to compress, so basically we want to compress each file older than 2 days but excluded some files in each directory that have been compressed (with extension .Z)

Can you please give me the one liner :

I found something like this

find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type f -mtime +2 ! -name "*.Z" | xargs compress

but not sure whether it's working in unix solaris 10.
anything simpler than this?

cheers,

 

[columb]

Why bother excluding - compress will spot the compressed files and skip them. You will get lots of warning messages but, if you're confident the rest works

find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type f -mtime +2|xargs compress 2>/dev/null

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Columb Healy

 

[peac3]

cheers mate