fighting with xargs :-(

[Harald Hoyer (slash)]

> 
> Don Russell wrote:
> 
> ls -1 *[^.gz] | xargs -r -I {fn} gzip -c {fn} > {fn}.gz
> 


The simple shell script provided by others is probably the best, but if you want to use xargs, you may be aware of:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.gz -print0 | xargs -0

for files with spaces in their name.


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